Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives

Chapter 1 Trends, Issues, and Challenges in Assessing Young Language Learners

Chapter 2 Do Developments in Assessment Represent the ‘Coming of Age’ of Young Learners English Language Teaching Initiatives? The International Picture

Chapter 3 The “Global Scale of English Learning Objectives for Young Learners”: A CEFR-Based Inventory of Descriptors

Chapter 4 A Framework for Young EFL Learners’ Diagnostic Assessment: ‘Can Do Statements’ and Task Types

Chapter 5 Examining Content Representativeness of a Young Learner Language Assessment: EFL Teachers’ Perspectives

Chapter 6 Developing and Piloting Proficiency Tests for Polish Young Learners

Chapter 7 The Development and Validation of a Computer-Based Test of English for Young Learners: Cambridge English Young Learners

Chapter 8 Learning EFL from Year 1 or Year 3? A Comparative Study on Children’s EFL Listening and Reading Comprehension at the End of Primary Education

Chapter 9 A Longitudinal Study of a School’s Assessment Project in Chongqing, China

Chapter 10 Individual Learner Differences and Young Learners’ Performance on L2 Speaking Tests

Chapter 11 The Role of Individual Differences in the Development of Listening Comprehension in the Early Stages of Language Learning

Chapter 12 Self-Assessment of and for Young Learners’ Foreign Language Learning

Chapter 13 Relationships between Peer- and Self-Assessment and Teacher Assessment of Young EFL Learners’ Oral Presentations