Language Assessment Across Cultures
From Intercultural Communicative Competence to Artificial Intelligence
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Beschreibung
Assessment of language proficiency varies immensely across cultures, contexts and purposes
The book makes a comprehensive coverage of cross-cultural aspects of language assessment, evaluating language tests (naturalization and secondary school-exit examinations) and European Language Portfolios from quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Detailed discussion of Computer-Assisted Language Testing with such aspects as language corpora, mobile apps, Computer-Adaptive Tests and Learning Management Systems is framed in the cultural context. The researcher evaluates opportunities of Generative Artificial Intelligence in designing and adapting culturally sensitive tests, examining culturally sensitive training of Language Assessment Literacy of language teachers in technology-rich contexts. The book ends with guidelines and recommendations for language test designers and teachers.
Autor*in
Jarosław Krajka
Prof. Dr Jarosław Krajka, Associate Professor, is Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland. He is founder of the journal “Teaching English with Technology” (Scopus Q1). His research interests include Computer-Assisted Language Learning, intercultural dimensions of language teaching methodology and intercultural communication.
Themen in »Language Assessment Across Cultures«
Language assessment Language testing ELT EFL ESL Language policy Intercultural teaching Intercultural communicative competence Artificial intelligence AI Multicultural education