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TY - JOUR
T1 - Diagnostic assessment of reading and listening in a second or foreign language
T2 - elaborating on diagnostic principles
AU - Harding, Luke
AU - Alderson, Charles
AU - Brunfaut, Tineke
N1 - This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).
PY - 2015/7
Y1 - 2015/7
N2 - Alderson, Brunfaut and Harding (2014) recently investigated how diagnosis is practised across a range of professions in order to develop a tentative framework for a theory of diagnosis in second or foreign language (SFL) assessment. In articulating this framework, a set of five broadprinciples were proposed, encompassing the entire enterprise of diagnostic assessment. However, there remain questions about how best to implement these principles in practice, particularly in identifying learners’ strengths and weaknesses in the less well-documented areas of SFL reading and listening. In this paper, we elaborate on the set of principles by first outlining the stages of adiagnostic process built on these principles, and then discussing the implications of this process for the diagnostic assessment of reading and listening. In doing so, we will not only elaborate on the theory of diagnosis with respect to its application in the assessment of these skills, but also discussthe ways in which each construct might be defined and operationalized for diagnostic purposes.
AB - Alderson, Brunfaut and Harding (2014) recently investigated how diagnosis is practised across a range of professions in order to develop a tentative framework for a theory of diagnosis in second or foreign language (SFL) assessment. In articulating this framework, a set of five broadprinciples were proposed, encompassing the entire enterprise of diagnostic assessment. However, there remain questions about how best to implement these principles in practice, particularly in identifying learners’ strengths and weaknesses in the less well-documented areas of SFL reading and listening. In this paper, we elaborate on the set of principles by first outlining the stages of adiagnostic process built on these principles, and then discussing the implications of this process for the diagnostic assessment of reading and listening. In doing so, we will not only elaborate on the theory of diagnosis with respect to its application in the assessment of these skills, but also discussthe ways in which each construct might be defined and operationalized for diagnostic purposes.
KW - Diagnosis
KW - diagnostic
KW - testing reading
KW - testing listening
U2 - 10.1177/0265532214564505
DO - 10.1177/0265532214564505
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 317
EP - 336
JO - Language Testing
JF - Language Testing
SN - 0265-5322
IS - 3
ER -