The Assessment of L2 Written English across the MENA Region

Part I: Test Design and Administration: Connections to Curriculum and Teacher Understandings of Assessment.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Language assessment literacy.- Chapter 3: Creational Reverse Engineering: A Project to Enhance English Placement Test Security,  Validity, and Reliability.- Chapter 4: Re-building the Tower of Babel?  Promises and Problems of World Englishes for Writing Assessment.- Part II: Grading and Feedback Connections: Exploring Grading Criteria, Practices and the Provision of Feedback.- Chapter 5: CAF profiles of Iranian writers: What we Learn from them and their Limitations.- Chapter 6: Exploring the Essay Rating Judgements of English Instructors in the Middle East.- Chapter 7: How Writing Teachers' Beliefs Influence Grading Practices.- Chapter 8: Designing Scoring Rubrics for Different Writing Tasks: The Case of Resume Writing in Iran.- Chapter 9: Evaluating English for Professional Purposes: Primary Trait Rubric.- Part III: Teaching and Assessment Connections: Exploring Learner Performance and the Impact of Instruction.- Chapter 10: Assessing L2 Argumentation in the UAE Context.- Chapter 11: Integrated Summarizing Read-To-Write Task: Patterns of Textual Borrowing and the Role of the Written Genre.- Chapter 12: Changing Practices to Overcome Writing Difficulties in EFL Courses at the Tertiary Level: A Lebanese Case Study.- Chapter 13: Integrating Computer and Teacher Provided Feedback in an EFL Academic Writing Context.- Chapter 14: Feedback Research in the MENA Region: State of the Art.- Part IV: Using Research Methods to Capture the Nature of Writing Proficiency and its Assessment.- Chapter 15: Spelling Errors in the Preliminary English B1 Exam: Corpus-informed Evaluation of Examination Criteria for MENA Contexts.- Chapter 16: Learning What Works in Improving Writing: A Meta-Analysis of Technology-Oriented Studies across Saudi Universities.

Lee McCallum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. She has extensive teaching and assessment experience from the Middle East, Europe and China. Her most recent work is a co-authored book entitled Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing: Quantitative Corpus Linguistics Approaches (forthcoming, 2021).

Christine Coombe is an Associate Professor of General Studies at Dubai Men's College, United Arab Emirates. Christine is co-editor of multiple projects, including The Cambridge Guide to Research in Language Teaching and Learning (2015). Her forthcoming books are on research questions in language education and professionalism.