This volume documents international national and small-scale testing and assessment projects
of English language education for young learners across a range of educational contexts. It
covers three main areas: age-appropriate 'can do statements' and task types for teaching and
testing learners between the ages of 6 to 13 innovative approaches to self-assessment
diagnostic testing self- perception and computer-based testing and findings on how young
learners perform on vocabulary listening speaking pronunciation and reading comprehension
tests in European and Asian contexts.Early language learning has become a major trend in
English language education around the globe. As a result of the spread of teaching English to a
growing number of young children assessment of and for learning have emerged as key issues. In
line with this development there is a clear and emerging need to make early language programs
accountable and to assess both the progress children make over time and to quantify their
achievement at various stages of development. This volume informs stakeholders about the
realistic goals of early language learning their efficiency and how much progress children
make over time.
