Identifying academic language needs through diagnostic assessment  

Oleh:

Read, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of English for Academic Purposes (Full Text) vol. 7 no. 3 (2008), page 180-190.
Topik: Language assessment; English for academic purposes; Diagnosis; University admission; Undergraduate students; Language support
Fulltext: Read_John.pdf (211.42KB)

Isi artikel

The increasing linguistic diversity among both international and domestic students in English-medium universities creates new challenges for the institutions in addressing the students’ needs in the area of academic literacy. In order to identify students with such needs, a major New Zealand university has implemented the Diagnostic English Language Needs Assessment (DELNA) programme, which is now a requirement for all first-year undergraduate students, regardless of their language background. The results of the assessment are used to guide students to appropriate forms of academic language support where applicable. This article examines the rationale for the assessment programme, which takes account of some specific provisions governing university admission in New Zealand law. Then, drawing on the test validation network by Read and Chapelle [Read, J., & Chapelle, C. A. (2001). A framework for second language vocabulary assessment. Language Testing, 18, 1e32] the article considers in some detail: 1) the way in which DELNA is presented to staff and students of the university, and 2) the procedures for reporting the results. It also considers the criteria by which the programme should be evaluated.

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