About the Book

Introduction to Measurement and Evaluation in ESL is an introductory text on testing English as a second language presenting the basics of language testing, and taking the student or reader through the fundamental descriptive and quantitative aspects of effective language testing. A thorough and concise guide to ESL assessment, this text fulfills the testing component of TESOL programs in the U.S. and programs around the world. It merges accepted and fresh concepts and approaches to language testing in a manner accessible to language teaching professionals, such as teachers and graduate students, concerned administrators, and even the informed non-specialists. In this volume, Ekbatani and Pierson take a fresh look at accepted assessment concepts and issues such as test construct, authenticity, communicative competence, validity and reliability, integrated and discrete point tests, test method effect, norm and criterion-based language testing, holistic and analytical testing approaches/methods, standardized tests, and the role of computers in language testing.