Handbook of Research on Perspectives in Foreign Language Assessment: (Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design)

As a predominant teaching paradigm, foreign language learning has increasingly been one of the crucial elements that leads to career accomplishments for students. Due to this, foreign language assessment has emerged as a major topic in the field of foreign language learning. The Handbook of Research on Perspectives in Foreign Language Assessment examines perspectives on language assessment through reflections on classroom applications and makes recommendations to strengthen quality language assessments by drawing on a variety of research methodologies. It also provides a foundation as to why foreign language assessment as a discipline should be refocused with caution, what sort of theoretical and practical implications should be in place for foreign language teachers, and in what ways it may be possible to provide futuristic perspectives on foreign language assessment for test developers and users involved in language assessment. Covering key topics such as testing, literacy, and language teaching, this major reference work is ideal for industry professionals, policymakers, administrators, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, preservice teachers, teacher educators, librarians, and students.

About the Author :
Dinçay Köksal is a professor of English Language Teaching at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. He worked as a teacher of English in the schools of Ministry of Education for 3 years. He presented and wrote many papers on language teaching, cross-cultural communication, He translated some books and edited many books . He is the editor of the Journal of Theory and Practice in Education (EKU) and ELT Research Journal. He founded Educational Research Association and International Association of Educational Researchers. He has been teaching courses such as Advanced Research Methods, Fieldwork in Applied Linguistics, Philosophy of Educational Research in the Master and doctoral programme in ELT.(b8e41626-4bac-4618-8eeb-e69fea005370) Nurdan Kavaklı Ulutaş received her PhD degree in English Language Teaching at Hacettepe University. During her PhD years, she was awarded by the graduate scholarship program of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. She is currently a full-time academic at the department of English Language Teaching at Izmir Demokrasi University. She divides her loyalties between teaching undergraduate and graduate classes, and academic research. She has book chapters, and articles published in national and international academic journals. She has coordinated or participated in the steering committees of several national and international education projects. She is the editor-in-chief of a fledgling international academic journal, Futuristic Implementations of Research in Higher Education (FIRE). Her research interests include language teacher education, language testing and assessment, and language attrition. Sezen Arslan is an assistant professor of English Language Teaching at Bandırma 17 Eylül University in Turkey, where she is leading as the vice-director of the School of Foreign Languages. She received her MA degree from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University and her Ph.D. degree in English Language Teaching from Hacettepe University. She has taught undergraduate courses in language testing/assessment and material development. She published in various refereed journals and presented papers in national and international conferences. She has also served on the editorial boards of international journals. She is currently the chief editor of the Futuristic Implementations of Research in Education (FIRE). Her main research interests are foreign language teacher training, professional development of language teachers, assessment, and intercultural awareness in language classrooms.(aa351f62-df2e-4ebe-beb5-1d2980f438d0)