The Companion To Language Assessment, 4 Volume Set

The Companion to Language Assessment provides the most complete and up-to-date coverage of the field today. This state of-the-art reference work explores 140 crucial topics covering assessment in a broad range of contexts.

• Examines the key issues for practitioners and scholars of language teaching and assessment, their impact on language learners, and specific approaches to assessment employed around the world
• Organized thematically, chapters explore the contexts where assessment occurs, including learners and their abilities; developmental tools and approaches to assessment; case studies of international issues; and quantitative, qualitative, and interdisciplinary approaches to evaluation
• Brings together an international team of scholars under the editorship of Antony John Kunnan, one of the leading lights in this field
• Available as a four-volume print set or digitally via Wiley Online Library
• Combines the leading voices and cutting-edge research in a reference work spanning the fields of language teaching and learning, language policy and planning, testing and evaluation, and education

Antony John Kunnan is Professor of English Language and Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has authored and edited books and edited special issues of journals on test validation, test fairness, statistics for language assessment, differential item functioning, and structural equation modeling. His most recent book is Workbook for Statistics in Language Assessment (coauthored with Lyle Bachman, 2005). He was the founding editor of Language Assessment Quarterly, which he edited from 2003 to 2013, and is past president of the International Language Testing Association.