English Language Assessment and Rasch Model Measurement: an Introduction

Bambang Sumintono

Abstract


In the modern and globally interconnected world, use of lingua franca is inevitable. Exchange of goods, money, ideas and expertise is happening every minute trough digital connection where English is the main language. This resulted to the big effort to maintain standard of language proficiency where English language testing so wide speared across the globe. Pricillia Allen (2009) writes that, “language testing is the practice and study of evaluating the proficiency of an individual in using a particular language effectively,” which shows complexity of assessing person ability to speak in other language. This position papers try to introduce of a measurement model that happening in English language testing (McNamara & Knoch, 2012), that not only resulted to estimate individual language proficiency, but also involve testing fairness even relate to social justice.     


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30870/aiselt.v3i3.11110

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