Preface: language assessment literacy

Features of Language Assessment Literacy in Iranian English Language Teachers' Perceptions and Practices

anguage assessment literacy (LAL), mainly defined as knowledge and skills of language assessment, in the last two decades, has started to receive the attention it deserves. As one of the significant findings, based on a plethora of research, many second language (L2) teachers have been indicated to be professionally incompetent in terms of LAL. To investigate the status of LAL among Ira...

Iranian EFL Teachers' Language Assessment Literacy (LAL) under an ‎Assessing Lens

Despite being trained in pre-service teacher education programs, most EFL teachers are underprepared when faced with language assessment-related activities. Part of the problem emanates from the fact that Language Assessment Literacy (LAL) as a construct has not been well defined by experts. The purpose of this study was to pinpoint the components of LAL in the Iranian EFL context using an adap...

Language Assessment Courses at Iranian State Universities: Are they Comprehensive Enough to Develop Valid Language Assessment Literacy (LAL) among EFL Students?

In the educational setting of Iran, language assessment literacy (LAL) is still an underexplored issue. This paper investigated the development of LAL among EFL students taking language assessment course at state universities in Iran. The three components of LAL (i.e., knowledge, skills, and principles) were the focus of the inquiry. To collect the required data, a questionnaire, encompassing 8...

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Literacy and Language Development/Delay

At the beginning and end of the school year, parents completed an adaptation of the home literacy questionnaire (Sénéchal, LeFevre, Hudson, & Lawson, 1996) and children were evaluated across a battery of early literacy measures: (1) Alphabet subtest of the Test of Early Reading Ability, Third Edition (TERA-3; Reid, Hresko, & Hammill, 2001); (2) Clay’s (1985) Concepts about Print Scale (CAP); (3...