The Assessment of L2 Written English across the MENA Region: A Synthesis of Practice 1st Edition Lee Mccallum

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• ISBN 10: 3030532542
• ISBN 13: 9783030532543
• Author:Lee Mccallum

This edited book brings together contributions from different educational contexts across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in order to explore how L2 English writing is assessed. Across seven MENA countries, the book covers aspects of practice including: task design and curriculum alignment, test (re)development, rubric design, the subjective decision making that underpins assessing students’ writing and feedback provision, learner performance and how research methods help shed light on initiatives to improve student writing. In such coverage, chapter authors provide concrete evidence of how assessment practice is governed by their unique context, yet also influenced by international standards, trends and resources. This book will be of interest to second language teachers, assessors and programme developers as well as test designers and evaluators.

Table contents:

Part I. Test Design and Administration: Connections to Curriculum and Teacher Understandings of Assessment

1. Introduction
2. Language Assessment Literacy: Task Analysis in Saudi Universities
3. Creational Reverse Engineering: A Project to Enhance English Placement Test Security, Validity, and Reliability
4. Rebuilding the Tower of Babel? Promises and Problems of World Englishes for Writing Assessment

Part II. Grading and Feedback Connections: Exploring Grading Criteria, Practices and the Provision of Feedback

1. CAF Profiles of Iranian Writers: What We Learn from Them and Their Limitations
2. Exploring the Essay Rating Judgements of English Instructors in the Middle East
3. How Writing Teachers’ Beliefs Influence Grading Practices
4. Designing Scoring Rubrics for Different Writing Tasks: The Case of Resume Writing in Iran
5. Primary Trait Rubric: The Case of MENA Countries

Part III. Teaching and Assessment Connections: Exploring Learner Performance and the Impact of Instruction

1. Assessing L2 Argumentation in the UAE Context
2. Integrated Summarizing Read-to-Write Tasks: Patterns of Textual Borrowing and the Role of the Written Genre
3. Changing Practices to Overcome Writing Difficulties in EFL Courses at University: A Lebanese Case Study
4. Integrating Computer- and Teacher-Provided Feedback in an EFL Academic Writing Context
5. Research on Feedback in EFL Classes in the MENA Region: State of the Art

Part IV. Using Research Methods to Capture the Nature of Writing Proficiency and its Assessment

1. Spelling Errors in the Preliminary English B1 Exam: Corpus-Informed Evaluation of Examination Criteria for MENA Contexts
2. Learning What Works in Improving Writing: A Meta-Analysis of Technology—Oriented Studies Across Saudi Universities

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