Evaluation in Foreign Language Education in the Middle East and North Africa

Part I. Teacher and Faculty Evaluation

1. Teacher Evaluation: What Counts as an Effective Teacher?
Omid Mazandarani, Salah Troudi

2. EFL Teacher Evaluation: A Theoretical Perspective
Khadija Alamoudi, Salah Troudi

3. Faculty Performance Evaluation and Appraisal: A Case from Syria
Anas Al-Fattal

Part II. Assessment Practices

4. Ethicality in EFL Classroom Assessment: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
Shaimaa A. Torky, Nawal Abdul Sayed Haider

5. Problematizing Teachers’ Exclusion from Designing Exit Tests
Abderrazak Dammak

6. The Voice of Classroom Achievement towards Native and Non-native Educators in English Language Teaching: An Evaluative Study
Tahany Albaiz

Part III. Text Genre Analysis Evaluation

7. Evaluation of Generic Structure of Research Letters Body Section: Create a Research Letter Body Section Model
Mimoun Melliti

8. Genre Analysis and Cultural Variations: A Cognitive Evaluation of Anglo-American Undergraduate Personal Statements
Ghada Hajji

Part IV. Assessment of Productive Skills

9. Learner Differences: A Trojan Horse Factor in Task-Based Oral Production Assessment
Mohamed Ridha Ben Maad

10. Assessing ESL Students’ Paraphrasing and Note-Taking
Yasmine Soheim

11. Criteria for Assessing EFL Writing at Majma’ah University
El-Sadig Yahya Ezza

Part V. Textbook and ICT Evaluation

12. An Evaluation of the Place of Culture in English Education in Tunisia
Tarek Hermessi

13. Evaluation of ICT Use in Language Education: Why Evaluate, Where to Look and with What Means?
Faiza Derbel

Part VI. Evaluation of ELT Certificates and Programs

14. Evaluating the Certificate of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (CTEFL): A Way to Quality
Hala Salih, Abuelgasim Sabah Elsaid Mohammed

15. An Evaluation of the Challenges of Sudanese Linguistics and English Language-Related Studies’ Ph.D. Candidates: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
Awad Alhassan, Holi Ibrahim Holi Ali

Part VII. Quality Assurance, ESP Needs Analysis

16. Quality Assurance and Foreign Language Programme Evaluation
Donald F. Staub

17. Evaluation in Tunisia: The Case of Engineering Students
Rym Jamly

Part VIII. Assessment Literacy and Dynamic Assessment

18. Why Should the Assessment of Literacy in Morocco Be Revisited?
Abdelmajid Bouziane

19. Specs Validation of a Dynamic Reading Comprehension Test for EAP Learners in an EFL Context
Sahbi Hidri

Avainsanat: Education, Language Education, Applied Linguistics