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Evaluating Second Language Education »

Authors: J. Charles Alderson, Alan Beretta
ISBN-13: 9780521422697, ISBN-10: 0521422698
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: February 1992
Edition: (Non-applicable)

This book is a valuable resource both for those already engaged in evaluation and for those in training.

	List of contributors
	Series editors' preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
I	Evaluation of Language Education: An Overview	5
II	Case Studies of Current Practice	25
Ch. 1	Insiders, outsiders and participatory evaluation	25
	Editors' postscript to Alderson and Scott	58
Ch. 2	Evaluating a program inside and out	61
	Editors' postscript to Lynch	96
Ch. 3	The 'independent' evaluation of bilingual primary education: a narrative account	100
	Editors' postscript to Mitchell	137
Ch. 4	Issues in evaluating input-based language teaching programs	141
	Editors' postscript to Palmer	164
Ch. 5	Program-defining evaluation in a decade of eclecticism	167
	Editors' postscript to Ross	195
Ch. 6	Evaluation of classroom interaction	197
	Editors' postscript to Slimani	220
Ch. 7	Moving the goalposts: project evaluation in practice	222
	Editors' postscript to Coleman	246
Ch. 8	What can be learned from the Bangalore Evaluation	250
	Editors' postscript to Beretta	271
III	Guidelines for the Evaluation of Language Education	274
	Appendices	305
	Appendices to Alderson and Scott	306
	Lynch Test Instruments	352