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Experienced foreign language teachers make use of a variety of approaches for evaluating their learners’ competence development. These approaches range from appraisal of a learner’s answer in the classroom to fully-fledged formal tests.
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Brown, H. Douglas/Abeywickrama, Priyanvada (2010): Language Assessment. Principles and Classroom Practices [2003]. White Plains, NY.
Coombe, Christine/Davidson, Peter/O’Sullivan, Barry/Stoynoff, Stephen (eds.) (2012): The Cambridge Guide to Second Language Assessment. Cambridge. (=Coombe et al. 2012a)
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Tsagari, Dina/Banerjee, Jayanti (eds.) (2016): Handbook of Second Language Assessment. Boston/Berlin.
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Vogt, K. (2018). Assessment—What, Why and How?. In: Surkamp, C., Viebrock, B. (eds) Teaching English as a Foreign Language. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04480-8_14
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