THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT COMPETENCE FRAMEWORK FOR PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS AT ULIS-VNU: A FOCUS ON VALIDITY

Abstract

Given that assessment competence is one of the key professional competence requirements for teachers in general, and English language teachers in particular, this article will address issues concerning constructing such a competence framework, including methodological, theoretical and practical ones. Firstly, the validity of a competence framework will be examined as the fundamental principle of the procedure for framework construction. Subsequently, other theoretical issues and practical concerns in relation to the development of an assessment competence framework for pre-service teachers of English language at Hanoi Vietnam National University will be briefly reviewed before the assessment competence framework is developed and validated by experts. It is in this final step of expert interviewing that the evidence for different validity aspects are considered together in a dynamic relation.