McKay, Penny

Assessing young language learners / Penny McKay. - xii, 388 pages: 23 cm. - Cambridges Language Assessment Series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series editors' preface page ix
Acknowledgments xii
1 A special case for young learner language assessment 1
2 Young learners and language learning 26
3 Research into the assessment of young language learners 61
4 Assessing language use through tasks 97
5 Classroom assessment of language use 140
6 Assessing oral language 176
7 Assessing reading and writing 217
8 Evaluating young learners' performance and progress 264
9 Testing young language learners through large-scale tests 315
10 The way forward 352
References 364
Index 379
Publishers' acknowledgements 385

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