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The Assessment of L2 Written English across the MENA Region
Lee McCallum · Christine Coombe Editors
The Assessment of L2 Written English across the MENA Region A Synthesis of Practice
Editors Lee McCallum Social Sciences and International Studies University of Exeter Exeter, UK
Christine Coombe Dubai Men’s College Higher Colleges of Technology Dubai, United Arab Emirates
ISBN 978-3-030-53253-6 ISBN 978-3-030-53254-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53254-3
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank all contributors for their hard work in producing this volume. Their dedication and timely response to feedback and guidance helped ensure the volume contained high quality engaging research that writing assessment stakeholders can benefit from. We would also like to thank the team at Palgrave Macmillan especially Cathy Scott, Alice Green, Preetha Kuttiappan and Hemapriya Eswanth and the two reviewers who provided helpful feedback on our original book proposal.
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Contents
Test Design and Administration: Connections to Curriculum and Teacher Understandings of Assessment Introduction Lee McCallum and Christine Coombe
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Language Assessment Literacy: Task Analysis in Saudi Universities Mubina Rauf and Lee McCallum
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Creational Reverse Engineering: A Project to Enhance English Placement Test Security, Validity, and Reliability Hadeel El Rahal and Huda Dimashkie
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Rebuilding the Tower of Babel? Promises and Problems of Wo
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