Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives

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Trends, Issues and Challenges in Assessing Young Language Learners by Marianne Nikolov.- Do Developments in Assessment Represent the 'Coming of Age' of Young Learners English Language Teaching Initiatives? The International Picture by Shelagh Rixon.- A CEFR-Based Inventory of YL Descriptors: Principles and Challenges by Veronica Benigno and John de Jong.- A Framework for Young EFL Learners' Diagnostic Assessment: Can Do Statements and Task Types by Marianne Nikolov.- Examining Content Representativeness of a Young Learner Language Assessment: EFL Teachers' Perspectives by Ching-Ni Hsieh.- Developing and Piloting Proficiency Tests for Polish Young Learners by Magdalena Szpotowicz and Dorota E. Campfield.- The Development and Validation of a Computer-Based Test of English for Young Learners: Cambridge English Young Learners by Szilvia Papp and Agnieszka Walczak.- Learning EFL from Year 1 or Year 3? A Comparative Study on Children's EFL Listening and Reading Comprehension at the End of Primary Education by Eva Wilden and Raphaela Porsch.- A Longitudinal Study of a School's Assessment Project in Chongqing, China by Jing Peng and Shicheng Zheng.- Individual Differences and Young Learners' Performance on L2 Speaking Tests by Jelena Mihaljevic Djigunovic.- The Role of Individual Differences in the Development of Listening Comprehension in the Early Stages of Language Learning by Eva Bacsa and Csaba Csikos.- Self-Assessment of and for Young Learners' Foreign Language Learning by Yuko Goto Butler.- The Relationships between Peer- and Self-Assessment and Teacher Assessment of Young EFL Learners' Oral Presentations by Yu-ju Hung, Beth Lewis Samuelson, and Shu-cheng Chen