Language Testing: The State of the Art. An Online Interview with James Dean Brown

Autor/inn/en	Brown, James Dean; Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali
Titel	Language Testing: The State of the Art. An Online Interview with James Dean Brown
Quelle	9 (2015) 4, S.133-143 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2157-4898
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Interviews; Language Tests; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Language Proficiency; Student Placement; Language Aptitude; Achievement Tests; Testing Problems; Test Validity; Language Planning; Models; Native Speakers; Portfolios (Background Materials) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Language test; Sprachtest; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Schülerpraktikum; Sprachbegabung; Spracheignung; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Testvalidität; Sprachwechsel; Analogiemodell; Muttersprachler
Abstract	In this interview, JD Brown reflects on language testing/assessment. He suggests that language testing can be seen as a continuum with hard core positivist approaches at one end and post modernist interpretive perspectives at the other, and also argues that norm referencing (be it proficiency, placement, or aptitude testing) and criterion referencing (be it diagnostics, progress, or achievement testing) fall on this continuum. He further suggests that evaluation is done at the level of program or course but that assessment is focused on the classroom, and then argues that both assessment and evaluation exploit measurement and testing albeit to different effects. He then comments on his views about high-stakes and low-stakes testing as well as washback, and finally expresses serious concerns about the impacts of language policy on language testing by calling the current NS models into question. Relating his concerns to validity issues, he suggests that language testers need to consider other options to the NS model to serve the needs of speakers of other Englishes. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01