{"product_id":"9781394179596","title":"The Concise Companion to Language Assessment","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Concise Companion to Language Assessment\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAntony John Kunnan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eEducation \/ Evaluation \u0026amp; Assessment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Concise Companion to Language Assessment\u003c\/i\u003e provides a state-of-the-art overview of the crucial areas of language assessment, teaching, and learning. Edited by one of the foremost scholars in the field, \u003ci\u003eThe Concise Companion\u003c\/i\u003e combines newly commissioned articles on innovations in assessment with a selection of chapters from \u003ci\u003eThe Companion to Language Assessment,\u003c\/i\u003e the landmark four-volume reference work first published in 2013. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresented in eight themes, \u003ci\u003eThe Concise Companion\u003c\/i\u003e addresses a broad range of language assessment methods, issues, and contexts. Forty-five chapters cover assessment conceptualization, development, research, and policy, as well as recent changes in language assessment technology, learning-oriented assessment, teacher-based assessment, teacher assessment literacy, plurilingual assessment, assessment for immigration, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploring the past, present, and future possibilities of the dynamic field, \u003ci\u003eThe Concise Companion to Language Assessment:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains dedicated chapters on listening, speaking, reading writing, vocabulary, pronunciation, intercultural competence, and other language skills\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDescribes fundamental assessment design and scoring guidelines, as well as advanced concepts in scenario-based assessment and automated performance scoring\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides insights on different assessment environments, such as classrooms, universities, employment, immigration, and healthcare\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers various qualitative and quantitative research methods, including introspective methods, classical reliability, and structural equation modeling\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the impacts of colonialism and discrimination on the history of language assessment\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the use of AI in writing evaluation, plagiarism and cheating detection, and other assessment contexts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eSure to become a standard text for the next generation of applied linguistics students, \u003ci\u003eThe Concise Companion to Language Assessment\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in applied linguistics, language assessment, TESOL, second language acquisition, and language policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANTONY JOHN KUNNAN\u003c\/b\u003e is a specialist in language assessment research who has held academic positions in many universities including ones in Bangalore, Los Angeles, Yerevan, Taichung, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Macau. He has published widely on various topics including validation and fairness and policy and practice for immigration and citizenship. His most recent authored book is \u003ci\u003eEvaluating Language Assessments\u003c\/i\u003e published in 2018. He was the founding Editor of \u003ci\u003eLanguage Assessment Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, the founding President of the Asian Association for Language Assessment, and the past President of the International Language Testing Association. 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