Language Assessment Bibliography

Guidelines for Editors

This page is a repository for texts that are useful to practitioners and students of language assessment. Therefore, only a few non-relevant references to Calvin & Hobbes and Far Side collections will be permitted. Feel free to put sources in more than one section if relevant and to create new sections as needed. If you do create a new section though, please maintain alphabetical order of sections for easy reading.

When you edit sections of this page, please use the format templates below for books and articles or chapters. For any other sources types.... just make it up! When adding a new source, please place it in the most relevant section and then add tags for other topics covered by the source.

Please do add some blurb so that people can see why the source is relevant and, where possible, include links to the relevant Amazon site and Google Books so that readers can get more information on titles.

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Book Source Wiki Code Template

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Language Diversity

Language Diversity in the Pacific by Cunningham, Ingram & Sumbuk published 2006 by Multilingual Matters.

Contains articles of particular relevance to assessment in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Challenges the drawing of language boundaries and describes issues connected to endangerment.

Tags: endangerment, Indonesia, China, Papua New Guinea, language boundaries, language naming, dialectology, pidgins, creoles, minority languages, vitality, Australia, Pacific, language documentation, education, language revitalisation, East Timor, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Australia, domains, language maintenance

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Teamwork

Building Credible Multicultural Teams by Lianne Roembke published 2000 by William Carey Library.

Realistic and practical, it touches on attitudes of mutual respect and open communication.

Tags: multicultural, teamwork, teams, communication

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Cross-Cultural Partnerships by Mary T. Lederleitner published 2010 in Downers Grove by Inter Varsity Press.

Mary is an SIL executive who became involved as an accountant with various cross-cultural issues in the worldwide movement and is now working on a PhD in this area. Her book focuses on only one aspect, the multicultural conflict issues and how to minimize them. The basics of formation of a mono-cultural team are not in focus; something else will be needed for that.

Tags: teams, teamwork, cross-cultural issues, multi-cultural, conflict management

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Teamwork: How to Build Relationships by Gordon & Rosemary Jones published 2003 by Scripture Union.

The book brings in personality type, how individuals of various types relate to others within a team context as well as stages of team development, spiritual giftedness and individual uniqueness. Exercises at the end of the book include self-perceptions of team roles, topics to discuss within the team context and team satisfaction.

Tags: teams, teamwork, relationships, personality type, spiritual gifts

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Leading Teams: setting the stage for great performances by J. Richard Hackman published in 2002 by the Harvard Business School Press in Boston.

Tags: teams, teamwork

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