Language Assessment Principles and Classroom Practices Douglas Brown

Contents, Glossary, Bibliography, index.

1- Assessment concepts and issues
2- Principles of language assessment
3-Designing classroom language tests
4- Standards based assessment
5- Standardized testing
6- Beyond tests : Alternatives in assessment
7- Assessing Listening
8- Assessing speaking
9- Assessing reading
10- Assessing writing
11- Assessing grammar and vocabulary
12- Grading and student evaluation

Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices, offers a clear, comprehensive survey of the essential principles of assessing second language learning, as well as the critical tools teachers need to evaluate performance fairly and effectively. This invaluable resource joins Brown's classic texts, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching and Teaching by Principles, in providing indispensible guidance for second language instruction.
Language Assessment provides a working knowledge of the principles of assessment and their practical application in the classroom. This concise, comprehensive treatment of all four skills includes classification of assessment techniques ranging from controlled to open-ended item types, while a discussion of standardized tests examines their design, purpose, validity and utility.