Liz Hamp‐lyon
Biographic Data
| ID | 132022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liz Hamp‐lyon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liz |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamp‐lyon |
| SIGNATURE | LYON L H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Englishes of English tests
The two authors conducted a small empirical study to attempt to find support for − or evidence against − the view that international tests of English language proficiency are unfair to speakers of non-standards forms of English, since these tests privilege standard forms. We explore the question of whose norms should be imposed in these tests, and what the consequences for test-takers are if the norm imposed by the test is not the "normal" variet…
Whose Norms? International Proficiency Tests in English
The paper reports on research into the claim that widely used English language proficiency tests are unfair (unfair in the sense that a test favouring boys could be said to be unfair to girls). The global spread of English opens a major debate on the acceptability of competing norms, whether they should be exonormative or endonormative (Davies, 1999; Gill, 1999). An International English (IE) view insists that the only acceptable norms are those …
Communicative Writing Profiles
This study investigated the validity of using a multipletrait scoring procedure to obtain communicative writing profiles of the writing performance of adult nonnative English speakers in assessment contexts different from that for which the instrument was designed. Tran sferability could be of great benefit to those without the resources to design and pilot a multiple-trait scoring instrument of their own. A modification of the New Profile Scale …
Whose Norms? International Proficiency Tests in English
The paper reports on research into the claim that widely used English language proficiency tests are unfair (unfair in the sense that a test favouring boys could be said to be unfair to girls). The global spread of English opens a major debate on the acceptability of competing norms, whether they should be exonormative or endonormative (Davies, 1999; Gill, 1999). An International English (IE) view insists that the only acceptable norms are those …
The Englishes of English tests
The two authors conducted a small empirical study to attempt to find support for − or evidence against − the view that international tests of English language proficiency are unfair to speakers of non-standards forms of English, since these tests privilege standard forms. We explore the question of whose norms should be imposed in these tests, and what the consequences for test-takers are if the norm imposed by the test is not the "normal" variet…
Communicative Writing Profiles
This study investigated the validity of using a multipletrait scoring procedure to obtain communicative writing profiles of the writing performance of adult nonnative English speakers in assessment contexts different from that for which the instrument was designed. Tran sferability could be of great benefit to those without the resources to design and pilot a multiple-trait scoring instrument of their own. A modification of the New Profile Scale …
Communicative Writing Profiles
This study investigated the validity of using a multipletrait scoring procedure to obtain communicative writing profiles of the writing performance of adult nonnative English speakers in assessment contexts different from that for which the instrument was designed. Tran sferability could be of great benefit to those without the resources to design and pilot a multiple-trait scoring instrument of their own. A modification of the New Profile Scale …
Whose Norms? International Proficiency Tests in English
The paper reports on research into the claim that widely used English language proficiency tests are unfair (unfair in the sense that a test favouring boys could be said to be unfair to girls). The global spread of English opens a major debate on the acceptability of competing norms, whether they should be exonormative or endonormative (Davies, 1999; Gill, 1999). An International English (IE) view insists that the only acceptable norms are those …
The Englishes of English tests
The two authors conducted a small empirical study to attempt to find support for − or evidence against − the view that international tests of English language proficiency are unfair to speakers of non-standards forms of English, since these tests privilege standard forms. We explore the question of whose norms should be imposed in these tests, and what the consequences for test-takers are if the norm imposed by the test is not the "normal" variet…
Linguistics (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works) · Language assessment (2 works) · Language proficiency (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)