Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions

by Xiaoming XI (Editor), John M. Norris (Editor)

Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the-art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes. The volume includes a brief introduction followed by four main chapters focusing on critical developments in theories and practices for assessing reading, listening, writing, and speaking, of which the latter two also address the assessment of integrated skills such as reading-writing, listening-speaking, and reading-listening-speaking. Each chapter reviews new task types, scoring approaches, and scoring technologies and their implications in light of the increasing use of technology in academic communication and the growing use of English as a lingua franca worldwide. The volume concludes with recommendations about critical areas of research and development that will help move the field forward. Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is an ideal resource for researchers and graduate students in language testing and assessment worldwide.

234 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 26, 2021

Reviews

[Michael Goodine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book serves as a sort of coda for the “old ETS” before the TOEFL gets blown up into something unrecognizable and seemingly unconnected from what came before. The book is almost sorrowful, as it describes page after page of good research and good ideas about assessing English for academic purposes that never made it into the TOEFL iBT. Instead of using these ideas, ETS just sort of left the test in its original form, basically unchanged for two decades. It is no wonder that so many bright minds left to build competing products.