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Humanising Language Testing

TESL-EJ (Berkeley, Calif.), 2018-05, Vol.22 (1), p.1 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

ISSN: 1072-4303 ;EISSN: 1072-4303

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Title:
Humanising Language Testing
Author: Hamid, M Obaidul ; Hoang, Ngoc T H
Subjects: College Students ; English (Second Language) ; English as a second language tests ; English as an international language ; Experience ; Feedback ; Feedback (Response) ; Focus Groups ; Foreign Countries ; Global Approach ; Globalization ; High Stakes Tests ; Humanization ; Interviews ; Language Tests ; Policy ; Qualitative Research ; Questionnaires ; Second Language Learning ; Student Surveys ; Test Content ; Test Wiseness ; Testing
Is Part Of: TESL-EJ (Berkeley, Calif.), 2018-05, Vol.22 (1), p.1
Description: Test-takers’ voices in relation to high-stakes language tests have received growing attention in recent years. While the perspectives of this stakeholder group can be utilised to improve test quality, test-taking experience, and test impact, we argue that this goal needs to be achieved by considering a fundamental shift in our conceptualisation of language tests based on test-takers’ experiential and perceptual data. This is a shift towards humanising language testing in a globalised world which has witnessed growing expansion, commercialisation, and potential dehumanising of high-stakes tests such as IELTS (International English Language Testing System). Drawing on data from two larger studies, we illustrate the call for humanising the test in seven areas including test purpose, test policy, test-taking experience, test administration, test-taker background, test content and task, and feedback on test performance. Although humanisation has accumulated specific meanings and contentions in the past few decades, test-takers’ call for a friendly, responsive, and closer-to-life test and a less stressful test-taking experience may appear more legitimate than controversial in a globalised world.
Publisher: Berkeley: University of California, Publications Office
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1072-4303
EISSN: 1072-4303
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Humanising Language Testing

ISSN: 1072-4303 ;EISSN: 1072-4303

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