Table of Contents

CONTENTS

List of Figures

List of Tables

Series Editors’ Foreword

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 1

Framing the Assessment of Academic English for Admissions Decisions

John M. Norris, John McE. Davis, and Xiaoming Xi

CHAPTER 2

Assessing Academic Reading

Mary Schedl, Tenaha O’Reilly, William Grabe, and Rob Schoonen

CHAPTER 3

Assessing Academic Listening

Spiros Papageorgiou, Jonathan Schmidgall, Luke Harding, Susan Nissan, and Robert French

CHAPTER 4

Assessing Academic Writing

Alister Cumming, Yeonsuk Cho, Jill Burstein, Philip Everson, and Robert Kantor

CHAPTER 5

Assessing Academic Speaking

Xiaoming Xi, John M. Norris, Gary J. Ockey, Glenn Fulcher, and James E. Purpura

CHAPTER 6

Looking Ahead to the Next Generation of Academic English Assessments

Carol A. Chapelle

List of Contributors

About the Author

Xiaoming Xi is Chief of Product, Assessment and Learning at VIPKID International, USA.

John M. Norris is Senior Research Director of the Center for Language Education and Assessment Research at Educational Testing Service, USA.

Reviews

"Considering the increasingly complex geo- and socio-political context of language testing, there is no better time to revisit both theories and practices of testing English for Academic Purposes (EAP), especially for admission purposes. The volume moves us forward with renewed understandings of EAP." Eunice Eunhee Jang, University of Toronto, Canada."This volume makes a timely contribution to the language testing and assessment literature by building on both seminal work and important recent developments related to English language testing for higher education admission purposes. Each of the chapters is written by a team of leading thinkers and researchers and sets out the state-of-the-art knowledge in language assessment in each of the four skills and in combination the chapters set direction for the field for future generations of language assessments. This book will most certainly become required reading for researchers, test developers, graduate students, and interested admissions officers alike." Ute Knoch, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Best Book Award"Considering the increasingly complex geo- and socio-political context of language testing, there is no better time to revisit both theories and practices of testing English for Academic Purposes (EAP), especially for admission purposes. The volume moves us forward with renewed understandings of EAP." Eunice Eunhee Jang, University of Toronto, Canada"This volume makes a timely contribution to the language testing and assessment literature by building on both seminal work and important recent developments related to English language testing for higher education admission purposes. Each of the chapters is written by a team of leading thinkers and researchers and sets out the state-of-the-art knowledge in language assessment in each of the four skills and in combination the chapters set direction for the field for future generations of language assessments. This book will most certainly become required reading for researchers, test developers, graduate students, and interested admissions officers alike." Ute Knoch, University of Melbourne, Australia