Reflect, Revisit, Reimagine: Language Assessment in ARAL

IF 2.8 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI:10.1017/S0267190520000021

C. Chapelle

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Abstract

Abstract This 40th anniversary of ARAL also marks the 40-year anniversary of a significant uptick in research on language assessment, and hence there is much to reflect on and revisit within this period—and still scope for imagining the future. Pre-1980, language assessment had a long history, but Spolsky (1995) designated the late 1940s as a time of professionalization, which continued through the following decades. By the 1970s, language testers were gradually organizing into an academic community with an annual international conference, regional conferences, journals, and scholarly books. The new academic community not only developed and used language tests but also investigated the validity of their interpretations and uses. Canale's (1987) paper in ARAL provides an enduring frame of reference for reflection on the concerns of the academic community, which he introduced as the what, how, and why of language assessment.

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反思、再审视、再想象：ARAL中的语言评估

ARAL成立40周年也标志着语言评估研究取得重大进展的40周年，因此在这一时期有很多值得反思和重新审视的地方，而且仍然有想象未来的空间。1980年以前，语言评估有很长的历史，但Spolsky(1995)将20世纪40年代末定为专业化时期，并持续了几十年。到20世纪70年代，语言测试者逐渐组织成一个学术团体，每年举行国际会议、地区会议、期刊和学术书籍。新的学术团体不仅发展和使用语言测试，而且调查其解释和使用的有效性。Canale(1987)在ARAL上发表的论文为反思学术界关注的问题提供了一个持久的参考框架，他将其介绍为语言评估的内容、方式和原因。

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来源期刊

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Multiple-

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6.70

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5.40%

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期刊介绍： The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics publishes research on key topics in the broad field of applied linguistics. Each issue is thematic, providing a variety of perspectives on the topic through research summaries, critical overviews, position papers and empirical studies. Being responsive to the field, some issues are tied to the theme of that year''s annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Also, at regular intervals an issue will take the approach of covering applied linguistics as a field more broadly, including coverage of critical or controversial topics. ARAL provides cutting-edge and timely articles on a wide number of areas, including language learning and pedagogy, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, language assessment, and research design and methodology, to name just a few.