"The field of language assessment is an active and ever-changing field of applied linguistics scholarship. With interconnections with many linguistic subfields--from language teaching to language policy to the sociolinguistics of immigration--language assessment has a real, measurable impact on the lives of language learners, both in the contexts of first and foreign language learning. In an increasingly globalized world, language assessment must continue to evolve in concert with the needs of language learners worldwide. First published in 2014, The Companion to Language Assessment was the first works of its kind. As a four-volume major reference work, it brought together the full field of language assessment into a comprehensive resource that examined all aspects of language assessment across 35 world languages. Building upon the success of the major reference work, The Concise Companion to Language Assessment will collect a selection of some of the most popular chapters from the full work, along with a large selection of wholly new chapters, in a single-volume edition for undergraduate, post-graduate, and graduate students studying language assessment, language teaching and learning, TESOL, second language acquisition, language policy, and other related fields. The Concise Companion accounts for the most recent changes in the field through an increased focus on technology in language assessment and classroom-based assessment, with new coverage of learning-oriented assessment, teacher-based assessment,teacher assessment literacy, writing, pronunciation, speaking, plurilingual assessment, assessment for immigration, and many others. The Concise Companion will also include an almost entirely new selection of articles on innovations in assessment, and throughout the work, new emphasis will be placed on the impacts of colonialism and discrimination on the history of language assessment. In 56 chapters--29 of which will be new-- The Concise Companion to Language Assessment will provide an ideal reference for students pursuing degrees in applied linguistics who are interested in working in language assessment, education, and policy. It is sure to become a standard recommended text for the next generation of applied linguistics students"--
About the Editor xi
List of Contributors xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction xxi
Theme 1 Fundamental Considerations
1 How to Conceptualize and Implement a Language Assessment 3
Lyle F. Bachman and Barbara Damböck
2 Learning-Oriented Language Assessment 22
James Enos Purpura
3 Assessing Integrated Skills 42
Alister Cumming
4 Dynamic Assessment in the Classroom 55
Matthew E. Poehner
5 Designing Evaluations for Validation of Language Assessments 67
Carol A. Chapelle, Erik Voss, and Haeun Kim
6 Fairness and Justice in Language Assessment 80
Antony John Kunnan
7 Statistics and Software for Test Revisions 93
Yo Innami and Rie Koizumi
8 Language Assessment and Artificial Intelligence 112
Erik Voss
Theme 2 Assessing Language Skills and Resources
9 Assessing Listening 129
Elvis Wagner
10 Assessing Speaking 143
Barry OSullivan Copyrighted Material
11 Assessing Reading 154
William Grabe and Xiangying Jiang
12 Assessing Writing 168
Cecilia Guanfang Zhao
13 Assessing the Linguistic Resources of Meaningful Communication 181
James Enos Purpura and Saerhim Oh
14 Assessing Vocabulary 205
John Read
15 Assessing Pronunciation 216
Talia Isaacs
16 Assessing Interactional Competence and Pragmatics 230
Carsten Roever
Theme 3 Assessment Development and Evaluation
17 Assessing English as a Lingua Franca 245
Jennifer Jenkins and Constant Leung
18 Scenario- Based Language Assessment 255
Heidi Liu Banerjee
19 Adapting or Developing Source Materials for Listening and Reading Tests
270
Anthony Green
20 Automated Writing Assessment and Feedback 285
Sara T. Cushing and Sha Liu
Theme 4 Assessment Contexts
21 Classroom-Based Assessment Issues for Language Teacher Education 303
Constant Leung
22 Assessment of Young Language Learners 312
Mikyung Kim Wolf
23 Monitoring Progress in the Classroom 326
Matthew E. Poehner and Rama Mathew
24 Diagnostic Assessment Feedback in the 21st- Century Technology-Rich
Classroom 339
Eunice Eunhee Jang, Maryam Wagner, Liam Hannah, and Hyunah Kim
25 Evolution and Future Trends in Tests of English for University Admissions
355
Xiaoming Xi, Brent Bridgeman, and Cathy Wendler
26 Assessing Health and Other Professionals 371
Lynda Taylor and John Pill
27 Acoustic and Temporal Analysis for Assessing Speaking 383
Okim Kang and Lucy Pickering
Theme 5 Assessment for Immigration and Citizenship
28 Language Testing for Residence and Citizenship in Europe: Justifications,
Consequences, and Debates 401
Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen
29 Language Assessment for Immigration in Australia: Test- Policy- Discourse
Entanglements and Their Ethical Implications 417
Kellie Frost
30 U.S. Immigration, Citizenship, and the Naturalization Test: Policies and
practices 432
Antony John Kunnan
Theme 6 Qualitative Research Methods
31 Introspective Methods 453
Miyuki Sasaki and Yuhang Hu
32 Test-Taking Strategies 473
Yuyang Cai
33 Consequences, Impact, and Washback 496
Liying Cheng
34 Language Testing in the Dock 509
Glenn Fulcher
Theme 7 Quantitative Research Methods
35 Historical Overview of Classical Theory: Reliability 527
James Dean Brown
36 Classical Test Theory Reliability 541
Yasuyo Sawaki
37 Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Score Interpretations in
Language Assessment 555
Ikkyu Choi
38 Practical Uses of EFA and SEM for Language Assessment Researchers 570
Gary J. Ockey
39 Item Response Theory in Language Assessment 588
Shangchao Min and Lianzhen He
40 Many-Facet Rasch Analysis for Evaluating Second Language Tests 602
Khaled Barkaoui
41 Psychometric Considerations for a Computerized Adaptive Language Test
619
Steven W. Nydick, J.R. Lockwood, and Mancy Liao
Theme 8 The Role of Technology
42 Computer-Assisted Language Testing 637
Ruslan Suvorov, Yasin Karatay, and Volker Hegelheimer
43 Computer-Adaptive Language Testing: Focus on Language Issues 649
Ramsey Cardwell, Ben Naismith, and Micheline Chalhoub-Deville
44 Automated Writing Evaluation 661
Jill Burstein and Yigal Attali
45 Detecting Plagiarism and Cheating 671
Ardeshir Geranpayeh
Index 681
ANTONY JOHN KUNNAN is a specialist in language assessment research who has held academic positions in many universities including ones in Bangalore, Los Angeles, Yerevan, Taichung, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Macau. He has published widely on various topics including validation and fairness and policy and practice for immigration and citizenship. His most recent authored book is Evaluating Language Assessments published in 2018. He was the founding Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly, the founding President of the Asian Association for Language Assessment, and the past President of the International Language Testing Association. In 2024, he was awarded the Cambridge-ILTA Distinguished Achievement Award in language assessment.
