Böcker i Michigan Teacher Training-serien

A guide to language testing and assessment. It provides useful insights into the practice and terminology of assessment. It focuses on providing the cornerstones of good assessments - usefulness, validity, reliability, practicality, washback, authenticity, transparency, and security - and techniques for testing.

Offers a unique approach of integrating curriculum with teaching activities to allow language educators to utilize the text in a variety of courses in a TESOL program. Although the authors assume readers have a basic knowledge of English grammar, this textbook/resource is designed to be comprehensible to those who have not had an SLA or Applied Linguistics course.

Offers an introduction to teaching second language writing. This book explores the questions that instructors may have about academic writing in the second language classroom. It provides a survey of the key issues and ideas that shape the teaching of academic writing to ESL students.

Designed for teachers in training in TESOL programs, future preK-12 teachers, and practicing instructors who need to integrate assessment into classrooms. The book shares foundational information on the importance of assessment literacy and on how language acquisition, student backgrounds, and standardized testing need to be considered.