Evaluación y exámenes de lengua inglesa

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

 

Testing English

 

 

Aguado-Giménez, Pilar. and Purificación Sánchez-Hernández "Defining in English: A Tool to Measure Writing Abilities." Journal of English Studies 3 (2002/2, issued 2003): 7-20.*

Allan, A. "Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Test-Wiseness in EFL/ESL Reading Test Takers." Language Testing 9 (1992): 101-122.

Amer, A. A. "Teaching EFL Students to Use a Test-Taking Strategy." Language Testing 10 (1993): 71-78.

Amengual Pizarro, Marian. "Rater Discrepancy in the Spanish University Entrance Examination." Journal of English Studies 4 (2003-2004): 23-36.*

Bachman, L. F., et al. "Task and Ability Analysis as a Basis for Examining Content and Construct Comparability in Two EFL Proficiency Test Batteries." Language Testing 5 (1988): 128-159.

Balteiro, Isabel, and Miguel Ángel Campos. "La evaluación en fonética inglesa: la opinión de los alumnos." In Los caminos de la lengua: Estudios en homenaje a Enrique Alcaraz Varó. Ed. J. L. Cifuentes et al. San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante): Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, 2010. 1281-95.*

Baten, Lut. "The c-Test Revisited. A Freeware Product for Placing EFL students of Business English in the New Bachelor-Master Structure." BELL ns 2 (2004): 301-14.

Boldt, R. F. "Latent Structure Analysis of the Test of English as a Foreign Language." Language Testing 6 (1989): 123-151.

Bueno González, Antonio. "Testing English as a Foreign Language: An Overview and Some Methodological Considerations." Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada 11 (1996): 17-50.*

Celaya, María Luz, and Inmaculada Miralpeix. "The Use of P_Lex to Assess Lexical Richness in Compositions Written by Learners of English as an L3." In Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain […] Actas del XXVI Congreso de AEDEAN, ed. Ignacio Palacios et al. Santiago de Compostela: U de Santiago de Compostela, 2003. 399-406.*

Choi, I., and L. F. Bachman. "An investigation into the adequacy of three IRT models for data from two EFL reading tests." Language Testing 9 (1992): 51-78.

Davies, A. "Validating Three Tests of English Language Proficiency." Language Testing 1 (1984): 50-69.

De Mauro, G. "Examination of the Relationships among TSE, TWE and TOEFL Scores." Language Testing 9 (1992): 149-162.

Dornyei, Z., and L. Katona. "Validation of the C-test amongst Hungarian EFL Learners." Language Testing 9 (1992): 187-206.

Er, Eleanor. "Text Analysis and Diagnostic Assessment." In Analysing English in a Global Context. Ed. Anne Burns and Caroline Coffin. London and New York: Routledge / Open U / Macquarie U, 2001. 229-39.*

Freedle, R., and I. Kostis. "The Prediction of TOEFL Reading item Difficulty: Implications for Construct Validity." Language Testing 10 (1993): 133-170.

García Laborda, Jesús, Teresa Magal Royo, Emilia V. Enríquez Carrasco and Guillermo Peris. "Valoración de la plataforma de exámenes PLEVALEX para idiomas con fines específicos: fases y procedimientos." In Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos) / Proceedings of the 5th International AELFE Conference). Ed. Mª Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría, Ramón Plo Alastrué and Claus Peter Neumann. CD-ROM. Zaragoza: AELFE / Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2005. .635-39.*

García Landa, José Ángel. "Estandarización internacional." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 17 March 2007. (Language testing).

         http://garciala.blogia.com/2007/031701-estandarizacion-internacional.php 

         2007-04-01

_____. "Estandarización internacional." In Fírgoa: Universidade Pública 18 March 2007.

http://firgoa.usc.es/drupal/node/34892

         2007-03-19

_____. "Exámenes Cambridge-Michigan." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 29 March 2012.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/03/examenes-cambridge-michigan.html

         2012

Hale, G. A. "Student Major Field and Text Content: Interactive Effects on Reading Comprehension in the Test of English as a Foreign Language." Language Testing 5 (1988): 49-61.

Hale, G. A., et al. "The Relation of Multiple-choice Cloze Items to the Test of English as a Foreign Language." Language Testing 6 (1989): 47-76.

Herrera Soler, Honesto. "Cloze Testing as an Alternative to the Conventional Exam in EBE." Miscelánea 14 (1993): 73-86.*

Hudson, T., and B. Lynch. "A Criterion-referenced Measurement Approach to ESL Achievement Testing. Language Testing 1 (1984): 171-201.

Jackson, Brian, ed. English versus Examinations: A Handbook for English Teachers. London: Chatto and Windus, 1965.

Jacobs, Holly, et al. Testing ESL Composition: A Practical Approach. Rowley (MA): Newbury House, 1989.

Jiménez Fernández, Ángel. "A Cloze Test for Advanced Students." Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada 11 (1996): 109-16.*

Khan, Sarah Zafar. "10 - Imperialism of International Tests: An EIL Perspective." In English as an International Language. Perspectives and Pedagogical Issues. Ed. Farzad Sharifian. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2009.

Kulal, Harsith. "IELTS to Conduct In Person Exam in India." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 21 July 2020.*

         https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2020/07/ielts-to-conduct-in-person-exam-in-india.html

         2020

Labrador de la Cruz, Mª Belén. "'Evaluating Awareness': The Case of Multiple Choice Exercises in ELT." In AEDEAN: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference (León, 16-18 de diciembre, 1999). CD-ROM. León: AEDEAN, 2003.*

Lázaro Lafuente, Alberto, Ana Halbach and Javier Pérez Guerra. "Heterogeneidad y contradicciones en los procesos de verificación del nivel de inglés de las universidades españolas." In A View from the South: Contemporary English and American Studies. (34th AEDEAN International Conference). Ed. José R. Ibáñez Ibáñez and José Francisco Fernández Sánchez. CD-ROM. Almería: AEDEAN / U de Almería / Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, 2011. 236-45.*

Leeds, Bruce. How to Write the TOEFL Test of Written English and the Graduate School Application Essay. (Lincom Language Textbooks 2). Munich: Lincom Europa, c. 2002.

Linde López, Ángeles. "Investigating University Students' Attitudes towards Assessment." In Actas del 25º Congreso AEDEAN, Granada 2001. CD-ROM. Granada: U de Granada: Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 2002.*

_____. "Pautas regulares de actitud hacia la evaluación en alumnos universitarios." In Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain […] Actas del XXVI Congreso de AEDEAN, ed. Ignacio Palacios et al. Santiago de Compostela: U de Santiago de Compostela, 2003. 381-87.*

Ma, Jingjing. "Chinese EFL Learners' Decision-Making While Evaluating Peers' Texts." In Feedback in Second Language Writing. Ed. Liz Murphy and Julio Roca de Larios. Monograph issue of International Journal of English Studies 10.2 (2010): 99-120.*

McNamara, T. F. "Item Response Theory and the Validation of an ESP Test for Health Professionals." Language Testing 7 (1990): 52-76.

_____. "Test Dimensionality: IRT Analysis of ESP Listening Test." Language Testing 8 (1991): 139-159.

Menéndez, Carmen. "Inglés para fines específicos: Ejemplo del uso de gráficos en exámenes de comprensión escrita para arquitectos." In Lenguas para fines específicos (IV): Investigación y enseñanza. Ed. Sebastián Barrueco et al. Alcalá de Henares: U de Alcalá de Henares, 1995. 43-50.*

Moreno Jaén, María. "A Corpus-driven Design of a Test for Assessing the ESL Collocational Competence of University Students." In Research on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition and Learning. Ed. Aquilino Sánchez and Rosa M. Manchón. Monograph issue of IJES 7.2 (2007): 127-47.* (Collocations, Testing, corpus-driven, ESL university students).

Oller, J. W., and C. A. Conrad. "The Cloze Technique and ESL Proficiency." Language Learning 21 (1975): 183-95.

Rea-Dickins, Pauline, and Kevin Germaine. "Purposes for Evaluation." In Innovation in English Language Teaching: A Reader. Ed. David R. Hall and Ann Hewings. London and New York: Routledge / The Open U / Macquarie U, 2001. 253-62.*

Read, John, "A University Post-entry English Language Assessment: Charting the Changes." In Second Language Testing: Interfaces between Pedagogy and Assessment. Ed. Lourdes Cerezo, and Marian Amengual. Monograph issue of International Journal of English Studies 13.2 (2013): 89-110.*

Roca-Varela, Mª Luisa, and Ignacio M. Palacios. "How Are Spoken Skills Assessed in Proficiency Tests of General English as a Foreign Language? A Preliminary Survey." In Second Language Testing: Interfaces between Pedagogy and Assessment. Ed. Lourdes Cerezo, and Marian Amengual. Monograph issue of International Journal of English Studies 13.2 (2013). 53-68.*

Ryan, K. E. and L. F. Bachman. "Differential Item Functioning on Two Tests of EFL Proficiency." Language Testing 9 (1992): 12-29.

Spolsky, B. "The Prehistory of TOEFL." Language Testing 7 (1990): 98-118.

Torres Menárguez, Ana. "Oxford le planta cara a Cambridge en la certificación del inglés." El País (E & emagister) 5 April 2017.*

         http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2017/04/04/actualidad/1491299188_385237.html

         2017

Weir, C., and J. Roberts. Evaluation in ELT. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

Zarco-Tejada, Ángeles, Carmen Noya Gallardo, Mª Carmen Merino Ferradá and Isabel Calderón López. "Analysing Corpus-Based Criterial Conjunctions for Automatic Proficiency Classification." Journal of English Studies 14 (2016): 215-37.*

         http://doi.org/10.18172/jes.3090

         2016

Zeidner, M. "Are English Language Aptitudes Tests Biased Toward Culturally Different Minority Groups? Some Israeli Finding." Language Testing 3 (1986): 80-98.

Zeidner, M., and M. Bensoussan. "College Students' Attitudes towards Written versus Oral Test of English as a Foreign Language." Language Testing 5 (1988): 100-127.

 

 

 

Internet resources

 

 

"Cambridge English Language Assessment." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia

           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_English_Language_Assessment

           2014

 

Cambridge Examinations B-est Zaragoza

         http://www.bestexamszaragoza.com/

         2015

 

Exam English: Free  Practice Tests for Readers of English

         http://examenglish.com

         2008

 

IELTS Materials.*

         https://ieltsmaterial.com/

         2020

 

 

 

 

Journals

 

Language Testing 10 (1993).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Societies and institutions

 

 

B-est Examinations Centre Zaragoza (Cambridge English Language Assessment).*

         https://www.bestexamszaragoza.com/

         2016

 

 

 

See also Testing (language).

 

 

 

Evaluación y Exámenes de segunda lengua

 

   from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Language Testing

 

 

Adams, R. J. et al. "A Latent Trait Method for Measuring a Dimension in Second Language Proficiency." Language Testing 4 (1987): 9-27.

Alderson, J. Charles. "Testing and its Administration in ESP." In ESP in the Classroom: Practice and Evaluation. (ELT Document 128). Ed. D. Chamberlain and R. J. Baumgardner. Modern English Publications / The British Council, 1988. 87-97.

_____. Assessing Reading. (Cambridge Language Assessment). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Alderson, J. Charles, and Dan McIntyre. "Implementing and Evaluating a Self-Assessment Mechanism for the Web-Based Language and Syle Course." Language and Literature 15.3 (2006):  291-306.*

Argüelles Álvarez, Irina. "Large-scale Assessment of Language Proficiency: Theoretical and Pedagogical Reflections on the Use of Multiple-choice tests." In Second Language Testing: Interfaces between Pedagogy and Assessment. Ed. Lourdes Cerezo, and Marian Amengual. Monograph issue of International Journal of English Studies 13.2 (2013): 21-38.*

Bachman, L. F. "Performance on Cloze Tests with Fixed-ratio and Rational Deletions." TESOL Quaterly 19 (1985): 535-55.

_____. Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990.

Bachman, L. F., and A. S. Palmer. "The Construct Validation of Self-Rating of Communicative Language Ability." Language Testing 6 (1989): 14-29.

Bauer, H. "Sore Finger Items in Multiple-Choice Tests." System 19.4 (1991): 453-458.

Blanco Canales, Ana. "Convertir la evaluación en una oportunidad para aprender. Una propuesta para la asignatura de lengua española." Contextos Educativos 14 (2011): 175-90.*

Boldt, R. F. "Latent Structure Analysis of the Test of English as a Foreign Language." Language Testing 6 (1989): 123-151.

_____. "Crossvalidation of Item Response Curve Models Using TOEFL Data." Language Testing 9 (1992): 79-100.

Bonheim, Helmut. "The Style Test." In Practice and Problems in Language Testing. Ed. T. Culhane, C. Klein-Braley and D. K. Stevenson. University of Essex Occasional Papers, 1981. 1-17.

Bonheim, Helmut. "President's Column: Testing." European English Messenger  7.1 (1998): 4-7.*

Bonheim, H. and B. Kreifelts. Ein Universitätseingangstest für Neuphilologen. Bonn: Bundesminister für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1979.

Bradshaw, J. "Test-Takers' Reactions to a Placement Test." Language Testing 7 (1990): 13-30.

Brown, J. D. 1986. "Cloze Procedure: A Tool for Teaching Reading." TESOL Newsletter 20.5: 1, 7.

_____."Tailored Cloze: Improved with Classical Item Analysis Techniques."Language Testing 5.1 (January 1988): 19-48.

_____. "Cloze Item Difficulty." JALT Journal 11.1 (May 1989): 46-67.

_____. "Short-cut Estimators of Criterion-referenced Test Consistency." Language Testing 7 (1990): 77-97.

_____. "What Are the Characteristics of Natural Cloze Tests?" Language Testing 10 (1993): 93-116.

Canale, M., and M. Swain. "Theoretical Basis of Communicative Approaches to Second Language Teaching and Testing." Applied Linguistics 1 (1980): 1-47.

Cerezo, Lourdes, and Marian Amengual, eds. Second Language Testing: Interfaces between Pedagogy and Assessment. Monograph issue of International Journal of English Studies 13.2 (2013).* (Introd., i-x).

Chapelle, C. A. "Field Independence: A Source of Language Test Variance?" Language Testing 5 (1988): 62-82.

Culhane, T., C. Klein-Braley and D. K. Stevenson, eds. Practice and Problems in Language Testing. University of Essex Occasional Papers, 1981.

Davidson, F., and G. Henning. "A Self-Rating Scale of E. Difficulty: Rasch Scalar Analysis of Items and Rating Categories." Language Testing 2 (1985): 164-179.

de Jon, H. A. L., and C. A. W. Glass. "Validation of Listening Comprehension Tests Using Item Response Theory." Language Testing 4 (1987): 170-194.

Dekeyser, R. "Towards a Valid Measurement of Monitored Knowledge." Language Testing 7 (1990): 147-157.

Douglas, Dan. Assessing Languages for Specific Purposes. (Cambridge Language Assessment). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Erdosy, M. Usman. "The Influence of Prior Experience on the Construction of Scoring Criteria for ESL Composition: A Case Study." In Writing in the L2 Classroom: Issues in Research and Pedagogy. Ed. Rosa M. Manchón. Monograph issue of International Journal of English Studies 1.2 (2001). 175-96.*

Fulcher, Glenn, and Fred Davidson, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing. (Routledge Handbook in Applied Linguistics). London: Routledge, 2012.

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415570633/

Fulcher, Glenn, and Agneta Syvalberg. "Limited Aspects of Reality: Frames of Reference in Language Assessment." In Second Language Testing: Interfaces between Pedagogy and Assessment. Ed. Lourdes Cerezo, and Marian Amengual. Monograph issue of International Journal of English Studies 13.2 (2013): 1-19.*

García Laborda, Jesús, and Elena Martín-Monje. "Item and Test Construct Definition for the New Spanish Baccalaureate Final Evaluation: A Proposal." In Second Language Testing: Interfaces between Pedagogy and Assessment. Ed. Lourdes Cerezo, and Marian Amengual. Monograph issue of International Journal of English Studies 13.2 (2013): 69-88.*

Green, Anthony. "Washback in Language Assessment." In Second Language Testing: Interfaces between Pedagogy and Assessment. Ed. Lourdes Cerezo, and Marian Amengual. Monograph issue of International Journal of English Studies 13.2 (2013): 39-51.*

Herrera Soler, Honesto. "State of the art in Language Testing: Ten Years of History or How to Deal with Assessment." Miscelánea 18 (1997): 115-38.*

Janseen, V. D. "The Development of a Test of Dutch as a Second Language: The Validity of Self- Assessment by Inexperienced Subjects." Language Testing 6 (1989): 30-46.

Haughton, D., and L. Dickinson. "Collaborative Assessment by Marking Candidates in a Tutor Based System." Language Testing 5 (1988): 233-249.

Heilenman, L. K. "Self-Assessment of Second Language Ability: The Role of Response Effects." Language Testing 7 (1990): 174-201:

Henning, G. "Advantages of Latent Trait Measurement in Language Testing." Language Testing 1 (1984): 123-133.

_____. "The Influence of Test and Sample Dimensionality on Latent Trait Person ability Item Difficulty Calibrations." Language Testing 5 (1988): 83-99.

_____. "Meanings and Implications of the Principle of Local Independence." Language Testing 6 (1989): 95-118.

Henning, G. et al. "Item Response Theory and the Assumption of Unidimensionality for Language Tests." Language Testing 2 (1985): 141-154.

Hudson, T. "Surrogate Indices for Item Information Functions in Criterion-Referenced Language Testing." Language Testing 10 (1993): 171-192.

Jafarpur, A. "The Short-context Technique: An Alternative for Testing Reading." Language Testing 4 (1987): 195-224.

Jonz, J. "Cloze Item Types and Second Language Comprehension." Language Testing 8 (1991): 1-22.

Klein-Braley, C. "A Cloze-Up on the C-Test: A Study in the Construct Validation of Authentic Tests." Language Testing 2 (1985): 76-104.

Klein-Braley, C., and U. Raatz. "A Survey of Research on the C-Test." Language Testing 1 (1984): 134-46.

Kokkota, V. "Letter-deletion Procedure: A Flexible Way of Reducing Text Redundancy." Language Testing 5.1 (1988): 111-26.

Krzanowski, W. J., and A. Woods. "Statistical Aspects of Reliability in Language Testing." Language Testing 1 (1984): 1-20.

Lado, R. "Analysis of Native Speaker Performance on a Cloze Test." Language Testing 3 (1986): 130-146.

Meara, P., and B. Buxton. "An Alternative to Multiple Choice Vocabulary Tests." Language Testing 4 (1987): 142-154.

Olshtain, E., and S. Blum-Kulka. "Crosscultural Pragmatics and the Testing of Communicative Competence." Language Testing 2 (1985): 16-30.

Oscarsson, M. "Self-assessment of Language Proficiency: Rationale and Application." Language Testing 6 (1989): 1-13.

Perkins, K., and L. D. Miller. "Comparative Analyses on Item Responses." Language Testing 1 (1984): 21-32.

Pollit, A., and C. Hutchinson. "Calibrating Graded Assessments: Rasch Partial Credit Analysis of Performance in Writing." Language Testing 4 (1987): 72-98.

Powers, D. E. "Academic Demands Related to Listening Skills." Language Testing 3: 1-39.

Read, John. Assessing Vocabulary. (Cambridge Language Assessment). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

_____. "Second Language Vocabulary Assessment: Current Practices and New Directions." In Research on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition and Learning. Ed. Aquilino Sánchez and Rosa M. Manchón. Monograph issue of IJES 7.2 (2007): 105-25.* (Vocabulary tests, assessment, corpus analysis, word frequency, registers, vocabulary size, depth of vocabulary knowledge, contexts of use)

Scott, M. L. "Student Affective Reactions to Oral Language Tests." Language Testing 3 (1986): 99-122.

Seliger, H. W. "Testing Authentic Language: The Problem of Meaning." Language Testing 2 (1985): 1-15.

Shohamy, E. and T. Reves. "Authentic Language Texts, Where from and Where to?" Language Testing 2 (1985): 48-59.

Spolsky, B. "The Limits of Authenticity in Language Testing." Language Testing 2 (1985): 31-40.

Swain, M. "Second Language Testing and Second Language Acquisition: Is There a Conflict with Traditional Psychometrics?" Language Testing 10 (1993): 193-210.

Theunissen, T. J. J. M. "Text Banking and Test Design." Language Testing 4 (1987): 1-27.

Tomlinson, B., et al. "An Algorithmic Approach to Prescriptive Assessment in English as a Second Language." Language Testing 5 (1988): 1-18.

University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate. A Dictionary of Language Testing. (Studies in Language Testing, 7). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

_____. Learner Strategy Use and Performance on Language Tests: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach. (Studies in Language testing, 8). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

_____. Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment: Selected Papers from the 19th Language Testing Research Colloquium, Orlando, Florida. (Studies in Language Testing, 9). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

_____. Studies in Language Testing 10. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

_____. Experimenting with Uncertainty: Language Testing Essays in Honour of Alan Davies. (Studies in Language Testing, 11). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

_____. An Empirical Investigation of the Componentiality of the L2 Reading in English for Academic Purposes: The Sino-British Advance Reading Test (AERT) Research Study. (Studies in Language Testing, 12). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Weir, C. Communicative Language Testing. New York: Prentice Hall, 1990.

Weir, C., and J. Roberts. Evaluation in ELT. Oxford, Blackwell, 1994.

Woods, A., and R. Baker. "Item Response Theory." Language Testing 2 (1985): 119-140.

 

 

 

 

 

Internet resources

 

 

"Common European Framework of Reference for Languages." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*

           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages

           2014

 

Portfolio europeo para la competencia en las lenguas. (SEPIE).*

         http://www.sepie.es/iniciativas/portfolio/competencia.html

         2021

 

 

 

 

Journals

 

 

 

Assessing Writing

 

Language Resources and Evaluation

www.springeronline.com

 

Language Testing

Print and online.

4 issues per year.

Ed. Charles Alderson (Lancaster U) and Lyle Bachman (U of California, LA).

Vol. 18 (2001).

 

 

 

 

 

Laws

 

 

Council of Europe. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

Series

 

(Cambridge Language Assessment). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, c. 2000.

 

(Studies in Language Testing, 7). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

 

 

 

 

See also Certification and assessment.