Assessing Performance: Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks

A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. 

English for Life Reading Pre-Intermediate A2

Develop key reading skills and become more confident when reading in English. If you want to understand everything you read in English, you need to practise reading different kinds of texts. With Collins Reading (A2) you will learn how to get the information you need from every text you read. Includes both authentic and adapted texts in a wide variety of styles: * signs and labels * timetables and tickets * advertisements * newspapers and magazines * brochures * social networking sites * blogs * * Twenty units with a clear design in full colour. * Appendices contain detailed advice targeting specific reading skills. 

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Do you want to sound more like a native speaker of English?
You need the key phrases and the conversational tools native speakers use to get their message across.
Speaking will help you become a confident and fluent speaker of English by choosing the right words, pronunciation and tone. Learn how to start up conversations, keep conversations going and deal with difficult situations.
Suitable for Intermediate learners of English (CEF level B1+).

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Written for newly-qualified teachers and students approaching the end of their training courses, this practical and accessible text is an introduction to working with children of a range of abilities in inclusive primary classrooms. The book draws on recent research and innovation in the education of pupils with special educational needs to provide practical examples and advice on how to meet the challenges of developing effective teaching and learning in inclusive settings.

This volume extends the Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice books series by deliberately exploring the potential of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in a range of EFL contexts. It is specifically devoted to providing empirical accounts about how TBLT practice is being developed and researched in diverse educational contexts, particularly where English is not the dominant language. This collection of 13 studies provides strong indications that the research and implementation of TBLT in EFL settings is both on the rise and interestingly diverse, not least because it must respond to the distinct contexts, constraints, and possibilities of foreign language learning.