The Importance Of Common Language Assessment

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Many countries have created their language policies to promote or demote the use of a specific language or set of languages. It is a way to keep one certain language in a country; otherwise, there would be many languages spoken in it. Nevertheless, one can speak their native tongue anywhere, but the way government documents are printed are according to the language the country selected. For example, the United State selected English as their primary language. This means that every governmental document written in the U.S. is written in English. The factor that define language policies in our educational system is the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. According to Menken,
“In the United State, federal education Policy was amended in 1994, …show more content…

Gottlieb state, “The common language assessment, Gottlieb proposes, is language-centered assessment geared toward English learners. It is a type of classroom-based assessment aligned well with the instruction students receive. Yet it also ensures the validity, reliability and usefulness of test results through school-, district-, and community-level collaboration and commitment” (2012). On can see, that common language assessments holds its value on gathering accurate data. Data that is reliable and valid because it is aligned with the concepts that the students are going to learn. This is very important because the students should be meeting the state objectives and the assessments are there to help the teacher gather information to make the objectives understandable to the ELL community. This way the students are meeting the objectives; as oppose, to meeting partial of it. As a result, this is the importance of establishing language benchmarks; in addition, this is what gives the teachers the breakdown of the language need to teach the objective. In other words, the benchmarks let the teachers know what is expected from each student and what additional resources is need to help

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