Using self-assessment to compare learners' reading proficiency in a multilingual assessment framework

System

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 105-119

  Ashton, Karen ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Assessment; Asset Languages; Can do; Comparability; Cross language; Functional; Multilingual; Reading proficiency; Self assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890848404     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2013.11.006     Document Type: Article

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