Telling What Is Real: Competing Views in Assessing ESL Development.

Moore, Helen

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Publication Date: 1996

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Telling What Is Real: Competing Views in Assessing ESL Development.

Moore, Helen

Linguistics and Education, v8 n2 p189-228 1996

Discusses new approaches in assessment development and describes two examples of English-as-a-Second-Language assessment recently developed in Australia. The article places these approaches within the context of state responses to linguistic and cultural diversity and demonstrates the implications of the differences between them. (85 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Change Strategies, Context Effect, Curriculum Design, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Listening Comprehension, Measurement Techniques, Oral Language, Reading Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Student Characteristics, Testing

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia

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