Name: Materials for Language Assessment
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Materials for Language Assessment

Edited By: Asma Aftab

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Drawing on experiences from practitioners across the globe, this book re-visualizes language assessment. It provides effective, inventive concepts for teachers and developers to create assessment tools that reflect authentic, needs-based language use.

This edited volume illustrates varied language assessment objectives (such as language impact and potentiality, and the effective uses of artificial intelligent applications) and activities which…

This edited volume illustrates varied language assessment objectives (such as language impact and potentiality, and the effective uses of artificial intelligent applications) and activities which have been developed from context-based theoretical frameworks. The beliefs and practices have been derived from the assessment experiences of practitioners in Europe, South Asia, Far East and Africa. Although most of the chapters demonstrate tasks which have been used to assess language learners belonging to specific educational scenarios, the book aims to enhance understanding of language and assessment in general while stimulating reflection upon educational truths.
The contributions re-visualize assessment procedures providing effective, inventive, and practical concepts which will benefit test/materials developers, language teachers and applied linguists. The discussed principles and exemplifications will support educationists to prepare and apply assessment tools which reflect authentic and needs-based language use.

Asma Aftab received her PhD in Applied English Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, UK. She has more than twenty years of experience teaching English language and applied linguistics. She is currently working as an assistant professor in Kinnaird College, Pakistan. She has published and presented on language skills, assessment and materials. Her recent publications include a book titled Revisiting Second Language Materials: A Pakistani Perspective; “Principled application of authenticity as an alternative teaching paradigm for Pakistani ESL classrooms” published in the edited volume Authenticity in Materials Development for Language Learning; and “The relative impact of L1 and L2 glosses along with computer-generated phonological guidance on EFL learners’ vocabulary learning” published in the journal Cogent Education. She was the keynote speaker in the annual seminar on English Language Studies held in Indonesia in 2020; she presented the paper titled “Understanding the value of ‘communicative power’ in the 21st century”.

Alan Maley, Brian Tomlinson, Geetha Durairajan, Maria Stec, Sakae Onoda, Shree Deepa, Stephanie Ashford