Name Index
A
Ahlquist, Sharon
Alexiou, Thomai
B
Bergman, Eric Petter Sakari
Bobi
ć
, Ivana
Bodri
č
, Radmila
C
Camp
fi
eld, Dorota
Ć
irkovi
ć
–Miladinovi
ć
, Ivana
Courtney, Louise
Crandall, JoAnn (Jodi)
Cvetkovi
ć
, Marina
D
Damnjanovi
ć
, Ivana
Dolakova, Sylvie
,
Dumitraškovi
ć
, Tatjana
G
Glušac, Tatjana
,
H
Holubeva, Valiantsina
I
Ili
ć
, Olivera
J
Jablonska Eklöf, Agneska
Jerotijevi
ć
Tišma, Danica
L
Luka
č
, Marija
M
Mati
ć
, Marijana
Matthaioudakis, Marina
Mazurkievi
ć
, Jelena
,
Mihaljevi
ć
Djigunovi
ć
, Jelena
Miladinovi
ć
, Nenad
Miloševi
ć
, Olja
N
Nikolov, Marianne
,
,
Nikolovska, Anžela
P
Petroni
ć
Petrovi
ć
, Lora
Porter, Alison
Proši
ć
-Santovac, Danijela
R
Radi
ć
-Bojani
ć
, Biljana
Radovi
ć
, Danijela
Rixon, Shelagh
,
,
,
S
Saratsli, Dionysia
Savi
ć
, Vera
Schnuch, Johanna
Schröter, Thorsten
Šuvakovi
ć
, Aleksandra
Sved, Rob
T
Tetiurka, Ma
ł
gorzata
Thekes, Istvan
Tomi
ć
, Jovana
Topalov, Jagoda
V
Vagenas, Alexandros
Z
Zdravkovi
ć
, Ana
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Keynotes
Teaching English to Young Learners:
Assessment and Learning
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Challenges in Assessing Young EFL Learners
Marianne Nikolov
Department of English Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities
University of Pécs, Hungary
The aim of this talk is to discuss the most important issues and chal-
lenges in the teaching and assessment of young language learners. Due
to the world–wide spread of early English, recent discussions have shifted
from “the younger the better” to “how good young learners are”. Thus, the
emergence of accountability has moved assessment to the foreground. In
the
fi
rst part of the presentation I will frame the
fi
eld as an innovation in
order to explain how early language learning (ELL), teaching and assess-
ment form a larger system. This approach will o
ff
er insights into how ELL
works in a range of contexts around the Globe and how the classroom, in-
stitutional, educational, administrative, political and cultural subsystems
interact. I will argue that a narrow focus on assessment or certain aspects
of assessment practice o
ff
ers only limited insights. Change requires a look
at the whole assessment culture (Davison,
) as well as the interactions
between teaching, learning, and assessment.
In the second part, I will discuss the construct of early learning and its
implication. The construct is often assumed to be simple (learning starts
early). However, a lot of variation characterizes models according to when
programs start, how much time they allocate to ELL, what type of curric-
ulum and method they apply, who the teachers are, and how they imple-
ment the program.
In the third part I will present how challenges were met in some re-
cent assessment projects implemented in various contexts: ( ) how frame-
works and tests were developed and validated; ( ) how young learners
were assessed in small–scale research projects and in larger–scale national
assessments: and
fi
nally, ( ) how assessment
for
learning and self–assess-
ment are gaining ground.
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