Second Language AcquisitionThis book offers a succinct theoretical introduction to the basic concepts in language testing in a way that is easy to understand. In the Japanese context, this book is highly recommended for university faculty members involved in obtaining assessment literacy, teachers who want to validate their exploratory teaching and testing, or applied linguistics students new to the language testing field. The book is divided into four main sections. The first provides an overview of the principles of language testing. The next contains short extracts from the testing literature with questions which stimulate further thinking. Section 3 is a list of references with brief annotations and Section 4 a glossary of referenced testing terms. |
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ability accessibility hierarchy adverb Applied Linguistics aspects of interlanguage behaviourist Booker prize Chapter classroom cognitive communication strategies competence consciousness construct context continuum developmental discourse effect errors evidence explicit knowledge factors Færch foreigner talk form-focused instruction function grammatical features grammatical structures guage guistic help learners identify interaction interlanguage development involved KEVIN GREGG kind Krashen L1 and L2 L1 transfer L2 acquisition L2 knowledge L2 learning language aptitude Language Learning Strategies Language Transfer learner language learners acquire learners of English learning an L2 learning strategies markedness mentalist MERRILL SWAIN motivation native speakers native-speaker negative Newbury House output perform positive pronoun provides psycholinguistic referred relative clauses requests result role rules Schumann Second Language Acquisition second language learning Selinker sentence sequence of acquisition Social identity speech stage of development STEPHEN KRASHEN suggests target language teachers Text tion types Universal Grammar verb word