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Assessing and Testing Languages for Special Purposes by Sieroka (2014) -…
Assessing and Testing Languages for Special Purposes
by Sieroka (2014)
Key issues
in assessing and testing
Formative vs. summative assessment
Assessment vs. testing
Main test categories
Placement tests
Diagnostic tests
Achievement tests
Proficiency tests
Specific qualities of
usefulness
Authenticity
Interactiveness
Validity
Impact
Reliability
Practicality
Testing language for specific purposes
(LSP)
Authenticity of the task (Bachman and Palmer, 1996)
expected response
relationship between input and response
input
test rubric
setting
The interaction between language knowledge and specific purpose knowledge
background knowledge matters more for postgraduates
low/high language competence - little effect of background knowledge
higher results in reading tests with passages related to one's own field (Claphman, 1996)
TOLES
(The Test of Legal English Skills) - 2002
Foundation (CEFR A2-B1)
reading
writing
Higher (CEFR B1-B2)
reading
writing
listening
Advanced (CEFR B2-C1)
reading
writing
gold, orange, red, purple, blue, green
ILEC
(The International Legal English Certificate) -2006
B2 (FCE) and C1 (CAE)
4 skills
Cambridge University Press ft. Translegal
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