Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- work effectively in a team
- plan and organise your own learning schedule
- prepare and deliver oral presentations
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- identify social impacts of language testing processes
- use established and innovative strategies to evaluate tests and test frameworks
- evaluate the quality of a given test or testing framework
- develop a critique of language testing policies and models
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- emerging issues in language testing and assessment
- the construct of communicative competence in language testing and assessment
- the roles of assessment in education, work contexts, and migration and citizenship policies
- validity and reliability aspects of language testing and assessment
- the purposes and traditions of language testing and assessment
- the ways tests are constructed and administered
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Revision | 20 |
Completion of assessment task | 26 |
Lecture | 12 |
Seminar | 12 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 60 |
Wider reading or practice | 20 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Utilizing Technology in Language Assessment. Chapelle C.A. & Voss E. (2017) Utilizing Technology in Language Assessment. In: Shohamy E., Or I., May S. (eds) Language Testing and Assessment. Encyclopedia of Language and Education (3rd ed.). Springer, Cham.
Textbooks
Shohamy, E. (2001). The power of tests: A critical perspective of the uses of language tests.. Harlow: Longman.
Extra, G., M. Spotti, P. Van Avermaet (2009). Language Testing, Migration and Citizenship - Cross-National Perspectives on Integration Regimes. London: Continuum.
Weir, C. & O’Sullivan, B. (2017). Assessing English on the Global Stage, The British Council and English Language Testing, 1941-2016. Sheffield: Equinox.
McNamara, T and Roever, C (2007) (2007). Language Testing: The Social Dimension. Blackwell.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Final project | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Final project | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Final project | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External