Glogowski’s interest in assessment emerged out of his research on blogging communities and adolescent literacy. Read his thoughts on blogging and assessment and what he learned from his students
This paper presents a method for the assessment of oral fluency in Business English according to a two corpora-based lexical approach. The original query for our research is the possibility of esti- mating the level of oral skills among Business English (BE) learners by contrasting their word use in oral presentations with corpus data frequencies. Use of Information Technology (IT) resources and electronic BE corpora is thus measured in the evaluative approach to identify significant per- formance changes between learners who have used such electronic resources and learners who have not.
This paper considers current assessment practice, looks at the impact of the Internet on today’s learners, explores ways of modernising assessment to narrow the gap between the everyday lives of students and the assessment practices that we impose on them.