Some construct validity issues in interpreting scores from performance assessments of language ability

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Spolsky’s educational linguistics 1
4. Part I
5. The monolingual teaching and bilingual learning of English 7
6. Literacy 19
7. Bilingual processing strategies in the social context of an undergraduate immersion program 35
8. Part II
9. Some construct validity issues in interpreting scores from performance assessments of language ability 63
10. What second language learners can tell us about the native speaker 91
11. The social responsibility of the language testers 113
12. Part III
13. Multilingualism and diglossia in Palestine in the first century of the common era 133
14. Introducing Khayem Zhitlovski 145
15. Arab language education in the Hebrew state 155
16. Adult use and language choice in foreign language policy 171
17. Linking levels in foreign language teaching through a common frame of reference 197
18. Part IV
19. Micro language policy as a barometer of change 211
20. The genesis of a district-wide Spanish FLES program 235
21. The distinctiveness of Applied Linguistics in Australia 261
22. Educational linguistics as a field 271
23. Index 299