But who trains the language teacher educator who trains the language teacher? An empirical investigation of Chilean EFL teacher educators’ language assessment literacy

IF 2.2 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Salomé Villa Larenas, Tineke Brunfaut
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Abstract

Research has shown that language teachers typically feel underprepared for assessment aspects of their job. One reason may relate to how teacher education programmes prepare future teachers in this area. Research insights into how and to what extent teacher educators train future language teachers in language assessment matters are scarce, however, as are insights into the language assessment literacy (LAL) of the teacher educators themselves. Additionally, while increasingly research insights are available on components that constitute LAL, how such components interrelate is largely unexplored. To help address these research gaps, we investigated the LAL of English as a Foreign Language teacher educators in Chile. Through interviews with 20 teacher educators and analysis of their language assessment materials, five LAL components were identified (language assessment knowledge, conceptions, context, practices, and learning), and two by-products of LAL (language assessor identity and self-efficacy). The components were found to interrelate in a complex manner, which we visualized with a model of concentric oval shapes, depicting how LAL is socially constructed (and re-constructed) from and for the specific context in which teacher educators’ practices are immersed. We discuss implications for LAL conceptualisations and for LAL research methodology.
但是谁培训语言教师教育者谁培训语言教师呢?智利英语教师教育工作者语言评估素养的实证研究
研究表明,语言教师通常觉得自己在工作评估方面准备不足。其中一个原因可能与教师教育项目如何培养这一领域的未来教师有关。然而,关于教师教育者如何以及在多大程度上培训语言评估问题上的未来语言教师的研究见解很少,对教师教育者本身的语言评估素养(LAL)的见解也很少。此外,虽然对构成LAL的组件有越来越多的研究见解,但这些组件如何相互关联在很大程度上尚未探索。为了帮助解决这些研究空白,我们调查了智利英语作为外语教师教育工作者的LAL。通过对20位教师教育者的访谈和对其语言评估材料的分析,我们确定了语言评估的五个组成部分(语言评估知识、概念、语境、实践和学习),以及语言评估的两个副产品(语言评估者认同和自我效能感)。我们发现这些组成部分以一种复杂的方式相互关联,我们用一个同心椭圆形状的模型来可视化,描绘了LAL是如何从教师教育工作者的实践所处的特定背景中被社会建构(和重建)的。我们讨论了LAL概念和LAL研究方法的含义。
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Language Testing
Language Testing Multiple-
CiteScore
6.70
自引率
9.80%
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35
期刊介绍: Language Testing is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles on language testing and assessment. It provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information between people working in the fields of first and second language testing and assessment. This includes researchers and practitioners in EFL and ESL testing, and assessment in child language acquisition and language pathology. In addition, special attention is focused on issues of testing theory, experimental investigations, and the following up of practical implications.
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