Evaluating Second Language Education
Responsibility for planning language teaching programmes now carries with it a strong element of accountability. Evaluation of the whole process of course design, development and implementation is therefore a necessary area of activity for course designers, language planners and researchers. Evaluating Second Language Education is divided into three parts: • Part One presents a review of the literature showing how the field got to where it is • Part Two contains a series of eight original...
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This book is a valuable resource both for those already engaged in evaluation and for those in training.
List of contributorsSeries editors' prefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1IEvaluation of Language Education: An Overview5IICase Studies of Current Practice25Ch. 1Insiders, outsiders and participatory evaluation25Editors' postscript to Alderson and Scott58Ch. 2Evaluating a program inside and out61Editors' postscript to Lynch96Ch. 3The 'independent' evaluation of bilingual primary education: a narrative account100Editors' postscript to Mitchell137Ch. 4Issues in evaluating input-based language teaching programs141Editors' postscript to Palmer164Ch. 5Program-defining evaluation in a decade of eclecticism167Editors' postscript to Ross195Ch. 6Evaluation of classroom interaction197Editors' postscript to Slimani220Ch. 7Moving the goalposts: project evaluation in practice222Editors' postscript to Coleman246Ch. 8What can be learned from the Bangalore Evaluation250Editors' postscript to Beretta271IIIGuidelines for the Evaluation of Language Education274Appendices305Appendices to Alderson and Scott306Lynch Test Instruments352
