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L2 writing assessment: an evolutionary perspective

Research Output: Book/Report Book Peer-review

Abstract

This book tackles three choices that face developers of L2 writing assessments: defining L2 writing abilities; collecting evidence of those abilities (usually by getting L2 writers to write something); and judging their performance (usually by assigning a score or grade to it). It takes a historical view of how assessment developers have made those choices, how contemporary practices emerged, and of alternative techniques that have risen and fallen over time. The three sections each tackle one of these choices. The first considers the social functions that define L2 writing and assessment; the second relates how assessment tasks have adapted to changing conceptions of languages, writing, and assessment; and the third explores how scoring systems have evolved. Each section brings the reader up to date with current issues confronting writing assessment (both in large-scale testing and in language classrooms) before considering the new opportunities and challenges of the digital age. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners in language assessment, language education, and applied linguistics.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Book/Report Book Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 08/12/2022

Publication status

Published - 08/12/2022

Place of publication

London

Edition

1

Volume

1

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., United States, United Kingdom

Publication series

  • Publication series name: Research and Practice in Language Assessment
    Number: 1

ISBN (Print)

9783031150104

ISBN (Electronic)

9783031150111

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/625651

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