Assessing ESL/EFL writing : research in primary, secondary and tertiary education /
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Bern :
Peter Lang AG,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical issues; 2.1 The skill of writing and writing assessment; 2.2 Scoring systems of writing assessment in a foreign/second language classroom; 2.2.1 Holistic scales and analytic scales; 2.3 Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency as writing assessment measures; 2.3.1 Complexity; 2.3.2 Accuracy; 2.3.3 Fluency; 2.3.4 Relationships between Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency; 3. Empirical studies; 3.1 Studies on L2 writing assessment via syntactic and/or lexical complexity measures; 3.1.1 Complexity and writing quality
- 3.1.2. Complexity and L2 proficiency3.1.3 Complexity and gender; 3.1.4 Summary and conclusions; 3.2 Studies on L2 writing assessment via accuracy measures; 3.2.1 Summary and conclusions; 3.3 Studies of cohesive devices in L2 writing; 3.3.1 Cohesive devices and writing quality; 3.3.2 Cohesive devices and L2 proficiency; 3.3.3 Problems in conjunction usage; 3.3.4 Summary and conclusions; 3.4 Studies on L2 writing assessment via CAF measures within the Dynamic Systems Theory; 3.4.1 Summary and conclusions
- 3.5 Studies on L2 writing assessment in primary and secondary-level education CLIL contexts3.5.1 L2 writing studies that adopt a holistic perspective; 3.5.2 L2 writing studies that adopt an analytic perspective using CAF measures; 3.5.3 L2 writing studies and gender; 3.5.4 Summary and conclusions; 3.6 Studies on L2 writing assessment in tertiary-level education CLIL contexts; 3.6.1 Studies of the effect of CLIL courses on L2 written competence; 3.6.2 L2 writing studies that use CAF measures; 3.6.3 Summary and conclusions; 3.7 Studies on L2 writing assessment that include additional factors
- 3.7.1 Instructional setting3.7.2 Language background: learner L1; 3.7.3 Topic; 3.7.4 Writing approaches: collaborative versus individual writing; 3.7.5 Learning environments: at-home and study-abroad; 3.7.6 Task complexity; 3.7.7 Pre-task planning; 3.7.8 Task complexity and task types; 3.7.9 Task repetition; 3.7.10 Corrective feedback; 3.7.11 Discourse types; 3.7.12 Raters' disciplinary backgrounds; 3.7.13 Writers' internal factors; 3.7.14 Raters' judgements of writing proficiency; 3.7.15 Summary and conclusions; 3.8 Concluding remarks and future research in writing assessment
- 4. Pedagogical issues4.1 Building students' productive expertise in the writing classroom; 4.2 Building students' evaluative expertise in the writing classroom; 5. References; 6. Index