EFL Teachers' Views of English Language Assessment in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait

Autor/inn/en	Troudi, Salah; Coombe, Christine; Al-Hamliy, Mashael
Titel	EFL Teachers' Views of English Language Assessment in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait
Quelle	In: TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 43 (2009) 3, S.546-555 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-8322
Schlagwörter	Quality Control; Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Teacher Attitudes; Higher Education; Student Evaluation; Language Teachers; Teacher Role; Questionnaires; Validity; Second Language Instruction; Evaluation Methods; Teaching Methods; Educational Philosophy; Kuwait; United Arab Emirates + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitätskontrolle; Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Lehrerverhalten; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Lehrerrolle; Fragebogen; Gültigkeit; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Abstract	Issues of assessment design and implementation in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have attracted some attention over recent years, but teachers' philosophies about assessment remain underexplored. This article reports the findings of a qualitative study into the assessment roles and philosophies of a group of teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) in the UAE and Kuwait. Based on an open-ended questionnaire, the study showed that teachers' views on the nature of assessment were informed by their knowledge of the field of language learning and teaching and by the contextual milieu and sociopolitical factors that govern their employment conditions. The study also showed that teachers did not play a major role in assessment because of top-down managerial approaches to education and a concern for validity and quality assurance in large programmes. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10