Language Assessment in Practice

Language Assessment in Practice by Lyle Bachman and Adrian Palmer is a defining text within the field of language assessment. With an expected readership of students, language teachers with varying experience, applied linguists, professional language testers, materials developers and textbook writers, Language Assessment in Practice is ambitious at its core. Nonetheless, the authors‘ logical approach and straightforward writing style make this a highly accessible text for all members of its intended audience. In an inviting first chapter titled ―Objectives and Explanations, or why we need another book about language testing,‖ Bachman and Palmer explain their reasons for taking on this project, especially in light of their earlier, formative work Language Testing in Practice (Bachman & Palmer, 1996). Using Bachman‘s articulation of the Assessment Use Argument (AUA) as its organizing theoretical framework, Language Assessment in Practice represents a distinct departure from the earlier text. At nearly twice the number of pages of text (excluding the projects in the final chapters of both books), and incorporating extensive resources available online, this volume represents a significant evolution in the authors‘ thinking about assessment

Los principios constitucionales y procesales en la jurisdiccion penal en materia de revisión y los límites de la justícia comunitaria y ordinaria

La única forma de lograr valor y eficacia a lo que se hace por el acceso a la justicia y, particularmente al recurso de revisión de sentencia condenatoria a favor del injustamente condenado, en todo tiempo y por cualesquiera de los casos previstos por ley, en base a prueba de reciente obtención (desconocida), es la nítida presencia de la cadena de razonamientos jurídicos de los Tribunales que pronuncien resolución de absolución, con los efectos inmediatos de: librar el mandamiento del injustamente condenado. Esta es la única forma de conseguir legitimidad permanente y ser garante de un orden jurídico nutrido de principios constitucionales y procesales, restituyendo la libertad a aquel que teniéndola por derecho le fue cancelada injustamente. Una forma inteligente de la justicia comunitaria que preserve los derechos colectivos de los pueblos indígenas originarios campesinos, precisa que sus decisiones se den dentro de los límites de sus territorios ancestrales y naturales.The only way that reforms oriented to the access of justice become relevant, and particularly the revision of decision action in favor of the unfair condemned, in any time and whatsoever the causes regulates by the law, is to follow the chain of legal reasoning formulated by the courts that pronounce an absolutory decision, with the immediate effect of extending the warrant of liberty of the unfair condemned. This is the only way of getting permanent legitimacy and of being guarantor of a legal system filled with constitutional and procedural principles. An intelligent form of a communitarian justice that will preserve the collective rights of the indigenous peasant people requires pronouncing its decisions inside the limit of its ancestral and natural territories

Expanding Capacity to Serve Multilingual Learners: A University-School District Partnership

In a time of new teacher certification requirements in New York, school districts are grappling with how to meet the regulatory expectations imposed by Commissioner’s Regulations Part 154. One way that schools are solving staffing challenges is by forging new collaborations with university partners to expand their collective capacities to serve Multilingual learners (MLLs). In this article, we document a partnership between SUNY New Paltz’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program and the Pawling Central School District during the 2017-18 academic year. We describe the partners’ distinct roles in the university-district collaboration, and discuss the logistical considerations and challenges they faced, with respect to program design, hybrid instruction, meeting certification requirements, and working with established university systems. We conclude by identifying components that ultimately made the partnership a success

Ecología profunda y Espiritualidad cristiana

El artículo busca incorporar la ecología profunda en la reflexión cristiana,la cual se contrapone a una ecología superficial, teórica y científica que se ha desarrollado en las últimas décadas, sin dar una respuesta efectiva a la crisis planetaria. Se trata de una visión holística e integradora del planeta, superando el pensamiento fragmentado, dualista y occidental. Lo nuevo que propone la ecología profunda es que involucra la emoción y la espiritualidad, supera las doctrinas religiosas, el pensamiento académico y se abre una senda en nuestra espiritualidad personal, da lugar a una ética política, concretizada en acciones ciudadanas y comunitarias que nos permitan aportar eficazmente a mejorar la situación integral del oikos. Juntando estos dos ejes: espiritualidad y praxis colectiva, alcanzamos a vivir una “espiritualidadpolítica”. El cristianismo organizado como está, no armonizacon esta propuesta sobre ecología profunda y espiritualidad política, pueslas instituciones religiosas no permiten la dinámica de una espiritualidadlibre, que nos religue con la Divinidad y con todo nuestro entorno. La propuesta es volver a una religión articuladora de la vida, una religión cósmica y ecológica que custodie todos los sistemas de vida, una religiosidad con mística, que priorice una ética del cuidado de la casa común

Revisiting the Andean butterfly Eryphanis zolvizora group (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) : one or several species?

Eryphanis zolvizora (Hewitson, 1877) is a rare Andean endemic butterfly, described from Bolivia, which has been historically classified either as a unique species, or as part of a group of three allopatric species from Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia. In this paper, the group is revised using more than 200 specimens housed in 35 European and North and South American public and private collections. For the first time, the presence of the group in Western Ecuador and Venezuela is confirmed, and important data on Peruvian populations are provided. In some populations, individual variations of genitalia are observed. Nevertheless, male genitalia allow the distinction of four geographical groups. Considering also habitus characters, eight taxa are distinguished and considered to be subspecies, of which five are new: Eryphanis zolvizora inca ssp. nov., Eryphanis zolvizora chachapoya ssp. nov., Eryphanis zolvizora casagrande ssp. nov., Eryphanis zolvizora reyi ssp. nov., and Eryphanis zolvizora isabelae ssp. nov. In the present state of knowledge, these taxa are allopatric, except for a possible geographic overlap in central Peru, where data are insufficient to prove sympatry. The “several subspecies vs. several species” dilemma is discussed, considering its impact for conservation action and policies

Desafios de descolonizar conceitos teológicos

pela evangelização cristã. Esta colonização-evangelização foi possível devido à linguagem, uma linguagem que nos constitui, é sobre esta mesma linguagem que buscamos por luzes para desconstruir a carga de opressão nela embutida, uma vez que está mais próxima do colonizador e de seus interesses. O artigo analisa alguns importantes conceitos teológicos e bíblicos: monoteísmo, Palavra de Deus/Bíblia, cristologia, eclesiologia, Reino de Deus, interpretação bíblica, e história de Israel; com o propósito de buscar um significado e uma interpretação libertadora e emancipatória a partir da própria terminologia teórica y linguística. Dessa forma tenta conjugar a epistemologia da descolonização1, como um esforço conjunto e interdisciplinar para visibilizar a colonialidade2 que ainda nos tece, e nos situar em nosso contexto comunitário e pessoal que insaciavelmente busca sai libertação

Language Assessment in Practice

Language Assessment in Practice by Lyle Bachman and Adrian Palmer is a defining text within the field of language assessment. With an expected readership of students, language teachers with varying experience, applied linguists, professional language testers, materials developers and textbook writers, Language Assessment in Practice is ambitious at its core. Nonetheless, the authors‘ logical approach and straightforward writing style make this a highly accessible text for all members of its intended audience. In an inviting first chapter titled ―Objectives and Explanations, or why we need another book about language testing,‖ Bachman and Palmer explain their reasons for taking on this project, especially in light of their earlier, formative work Language Testing in Practice (Bachman & Palmer, 1996). Using Bachman‘s articulation of the Assessment Use Argument (AUA) as its organizing theoretical framework, Language Assessment in Practice represents a distinct departure from the earlier text. At nearly twice the number of pages of text (excluding the projects in the final chapters of both books), and incorporating extensive resources available online, this volume represents a significant evolution in the authors‘ thinking about assessment