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Fostering Language Assessment Literacy: Materials, Methods, and Emerging Issues book cover

1st Edition

Fostering Language Assessment Literacy Materials, Methods, and Emerging Issues

Edited By Frank Giraldo, Xun Yan Copyright 2026
232 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This collection showcases language assessment literacy, understood as the knowledge, skills, and principles necessary to engage in assessment activities, by problematizing different approaches to its development and offering insights for language teachers and other stakeholders. The volume builds on existing research in LAL, which has thus far focused on defining its scope and charting how... Read more

List of Contributors

 

1. Introduction

            Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan

 

 Part 1: Designing materials to foster LAL

 

2. LAL training in Vietnam: A teacher-centred approach to resource development

            Susan Sheehan and Thuy Thai

 

3. Exploring the effect of embedding assessments into a professional development presentation as a means of improving language teachers’ assessment competency

            Michelle L. Stabler-Havener

 

4. Pre-service teachers’ language assessment literacy enhancement: Towards pedagogies for LAL

            Karin Vogt

 

Part 2: Designing and teaching LAL workshops and courses

 

5. Is online language assessment training helpful to improve language assessment literacy?

Views of Mexican young learner EFL teachers and training instructors

            Elsa Fernanda González and Ricardo de la Garza-Cano

 

6. Put a little imagination in your collaboration: What can thought experiments do for language assessment literacy?

            Newton Paulo Monteiro

 

7. Investigating educator-participant interaction in a language assessment MOOC

            Richard Spiby, Carolyn Westbrook and Jordan Weide

 

Part 3: Emerging issues in LAL pedagogies

 

8. Who will teach the teacher educator? Findings and implications of an online workshop for fostering Brazilian teacher educators’ language assessment literacy

            Isadora Moraes and Viviane Bagio Furtoso

 

9. Learning about language assessment to teach young learners: The contribution of an online course

            Gladys Quevedo-Camargo and Juliana Reichert Assunção Tonelli

 

10. Critical language assessment literacy (CLAL) of L2 teachers: Unpacking the impact of CLAL-focused teacher education

            Zia Tajeddin and Mohsen Mahdavi

 

11. Social justice in classroom assessment through teachers’ language assessment literacy

            Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan

 

12. Conclusions

            Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan

 

Index

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Frank Giraldo is a professor at the Foreign Languages Department of Universidad de Caldas in Manizales, Colombia.

Xun Yan is a professor of Linguistics and Educational Psychology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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