Routledge publishes

November 10, 2025

Fostering Language Assessment Literacy: Materials, Methods, and Emerging Issues

Edited by
Frank Giraldo
Xun Yan

https://www.routledge.com/Fostering-Language-Assessment-Literacy-Materials-Methods-and-Emerging-Issues/Giraldo-Yan/p/book/9781032775951

TOC:
1.Introduction

Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan
 
Part 1: Designing materials to foster LAL
 
2.LAL training in Vietnam: A teacher-centred approach to resource development

Susan Sheehan and Thuy Thai
 
3.Exploring the effect of embedding assessments into a professional development presentation as a means of improving language teachers’ assessment competency

Michelle L. Stabler-Havener
 
4.Pre-service teachers’ language assessment literacy enhancement: Towards pedagogies for LAL

Karin Vogt
 
Part 2: Designing and teaching LAL workshops and courses
 
5.Is online language assessment training helpful to improve language assessment literacy?
Views of Mexican young learner EFL teachers and training instructors

Elsa Fernanda González and Ricardo de la Garza-Cano
 
6.Put a little imagination in your collaboration: What can thought experiments do for language assessment literacy?

Newton Paulo Monteiro
 
7.Investigating educator-participant interaction in a language assessment MOOC

Richard Spiby, Carolyn Westbrook and Jordan Weide
 
Part 3: Emerging issues in LAL pedagogies
 
8.Who will teach the teacher educator? Findings and implications of an online workshop for fostering Brazilian teacher educators’ language assessment literacy

Isadora Moraes and Viviane Bagio Furtoso
 
9.Learning about language assessment to teach young learners: The contribution of an online course

Gladys Quevedo-Camargo and Juliana Reichert Assunção Tonelli
 
10.Critical language assessment literacy (CLAL) of L2 teachers: Unpacking the impact of CLAL-focused teacher education

Zia Tajeddin and Mohsen Mahdavi
 
11.Social justice in classroom assessment through teachers’ language assessment literacy

Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan
 
12.Conclusions

Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan