本书三位编者分别为英国南安普顿大学语言学系教师、斯旺西大学应用语言学教授和阿尔斯特大学教师,均在语言测试与评估等领域成果颇丰。全书分为5 章,由16 篇论文组成,全部围绕学术英语测评领域各方面的前沿话题、综合语言测试与学术英语这两个领域的理论框架和具体实践而展开讨论。内容涉及学术英语环境下的语言知识和语言运用、设计测试程序所依循的原则、这些原则的具体应用和实际操作,以及学术英语测试的发展和技术运用,等等。
兼顾学术性、专业性、实用性和前瞻性特点
--全球甄选,原版引进,国内du家的ESP学术精品
--中国专门用途英语专业委员会重点推荐参考书
前言
为适应“十三五”我国高等学校外语教学改革与发展的需要,贯彻落实新出台的《高等学校外国语言文学专业本科教学质量国家标准》和《高等学校大学英语教学指南》的精神,推动我国专门用途英语课程群建设和教师发展,清华大学出版社精心策划,从国外引进一套高质量的“专门用途英语教学与研究学术文库”,以填补国内ESP 教学与学术研究参考书的空白。
本套丛书为开放式,涉及专业英语和学术英语教学与研究的诸多方面,目的是帮助高校广大英语教师提高专用英语教学和科研水平。丛书具有学术性、专业性、实用性、前瞻性等特点,全部为国外原版引进,今后还会不断补充。我们邀请了国内ESP 教学与研究领域的专家学者为每本书撰写了中文导读。
本套丛书首批包含以下8 本专著,涉及ESP 教材、教法、教师发展、测试、科研方法等主题:
《学术英语的理论与理念》(Theory and Concepts of English for Academic Purposes)
《学术英语教师指南与资源》(English for Academic Purposes: A Guide andResource Book for Teachers)
《学术英语测评》(Assessing English for Academic Purposes)
《专门用途英语手册》(The Handbook of English for Specifi c Purposes)
《专门用途英语学习语料库探究》 (Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning)
《行业话语:语料库语言学视角》(Discourse in the Professions: Perspectivesfrom Corpus Linguistics)
《商务英语教学》(Teach Business English)
《医学英语教育》(English in Medical Education)
我们相信,丛书的出版将对广大英语师生开展ESP 教学和科研起到积极的促进作用,同时对社会和行业人士学习专业英语也具有参考价值。
丛书编委会
中文导读(张凤娟 江进林) Vii
1 Introduction: Assessing English for Academic Purposes
George M Blue, James Milton and Jane Saville 1
Part One: Language Testing in an EAP Context
2 Testing in EAP: Progress? Achievement? Proficiency?
J Charles Alderson 15
3 The Chaplen Test Revisited
John Morley 43
4. Screening New Students
with the UCLES Computer Adaptive Test
Paul Fanning and Lynne Hale 57
Part Two: Language Assessment in Academic Departments
5 Collaborative Assessment of Written Reports:
Electrical Engineering and EF L
Esther Daborn and Moira Calderwood 73
6 Written Errors of International Students and English Native
Speaker Students
Joan Cutting 91
Part Three: The Requirements of Different
Academic Institutions and Departments
7 Assessing Postgraduates in the Real World
Julie Hartill 111
8 Life after the Pre-Sessional Course:
How Students Fare in their Departments
Rita Green 125
9 Stacking the Decks: What does it take
to Satisfy Academic Readers' Requirements?
Lynn Errey 141
10 I Know I have to be Critical, but How?
Gill Meldrum 163
Part Four: Non-Traditional Forms of Assessment
11 Assessment in EAP:
Moving away from Traditional Models
Katie Gray 185
12 The Role of Portfolios in the Assessment
of Student Writing on an EAP Course
Alicia Cresswell 199
13 A Self-Evaluation Instrument for the
Measurement of Student Proficiency Levels
M I Freeman 215
14 Self-Assessment and Defining Learners' Needs
George M Blue 231
Part Five: Students' Views of Assessment
15 Developing Accuracy in Academic Writing
Barbara Atherton 253
16 Ls the Customer Sometimes Right?
Students' Views of Assessment in EAP
R R Jordan 256
Notes on Contributors 279