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English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners
As the need for learning English among young learners increases especially first, second and third graders, so does the need for appropriate measures for informing relevant
stakeholders of the learners’ English proficiency levels. High-quality English language proficiency assessments (referred to as ELP assessments hereafter) can be instrumental at the institutional level in planning curriculum and instruction and placing students into appropriate programs. ELP assessments can also be useful at the individual level, supporting students, parents, and teachers to improve their English language learning and teaching. However, while there is a growing demand for standardized ELP assessments as an objective measure to gauge each student’s level of English language development, extra care must be exercised in the development and use of standardized ELP assessments for young school-age children considering their unique characteristics compared to adult learners. Further, the book includes students at the upper elementary and middle school grade levels (around ages 9 to 13) as “young learners” in this volume because these students are still developing their cognitive abilities and gaining critical social/cultural experiences—a fact which needs to be carefully considered in the assessment of their English language proficiency
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