Changing Language Assessment New Dimensions, New Challenges
"The series of investigations and reports in this book edited by Dr. Sahbi Hidri makes an important contribution to the expanding body of knowledge related to classroom assessment in language teaching. Wide-ranging in both the international contexts
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Changing Language Assessment
Sahbi Hidri Editor
Changing Language Assessment New Dimensions, New Challenges
Editor Sahbi Hidri English Department Faculty of Human and Social Sciences Tunis, Tunisia
ISBN 978-3-030-42268-4 ISBN 978-3-030-42269-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42269-1
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Preface
The main aim of assessment is to assess whether learning has occurred or not and it is believed that the main objective of assessment is to find out how far the learning involvements are essentially generating the anticipated outcomes. Assessment primarily refers to the systematic way of collecting information with the aims of making judgments or decisions about learners, languages programs and exams. Assessment is believed to be basically rooted in the behaviorist viewpoint of learning. Changing Language Assessment: New Dimensions, New Challenges is a book about different voices that address the need to change the traditional dogmatized types assessment into modern assessment that gives the floor to enhancing the different classroom-based techniques that targets learners’ hidden potential to be creative learners in their academic environments their future field of work. The book highlights these aspirations that ELT practitioners aspire to achieve. Some readers might find the topics repetitive, but given the eventuality that they might not be familiar with what has been going on in different contexts, it is essential for them to probe these contexts and see how the new assessment challenges can lead to
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