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Angela Hasselgreen has taught English in Norway since 1975, at school, university and teacher training levels. Since 1993 she has been engaged in language assessment projects for Norwegian school pupils at national and international level, this being the basis for her doctorate in 1999. She coordinated ECML’s Nordic-Baltic ‘Bergen-cando project’, adapting the Common European Framework (CEF) for lower secondary pupils (2000-2003).

She is currently employed at the University of Bergen, as project leader, coordinating the development of CEF-linked National Tests of English and as a researcher into language assessment and teacher training. She is the leader of the working group for creating a new national curriculum for English in Norway (Læreplan). She is on the executive board of EALTA (European Association for Language Testing and Assessment), and is organiser of the 2nd EALTA conference, in Voss, June, 2005

Research results, see Frida.

Detailed CV

Publications
1994. «Lexical Teddy Bears and Advanced learners: a study into the ways Norwegian students cope with vocabulary.» Applied Linguistics, 4/2 (237-260).

1996a. Kartlegging av kommunikativ kompetanse i engelsk - 8 (9) klasse. (diagnostic tests and teacher handbooks) Oslo: NLS.

1996b. The EVA diagnostic testing and survey of English in the 8th grade of the Norwegian Comprehensive School. Unpublished report for the Norwegian Ministry of Church, Education and Research.

1996c. «Norway», in P. Dickson and A. Cummins (eds.). IEA: Profiles of Language Education in 25 Countries (77-81). Slough: NFER.

1996d. «The EVA Project - diagnostic tests of English in the 8th class, or something more?» Språk og Språkundervisning, 2/96.


1996e. «Speaking Counts - evaluating spoken English in schools». In G. Bjørhovde and G. Rogne (eds.). Proceedings from the sixth Nordic conference for English studies (291-314). Tromsø.

1997. «Oral Test Subskill Scores: what they tell us about raters and pupils». In A. Huhta, V. Kohonen, L. Kurki Suonio and S. Luoma (eds). Current Developments and Alternatives in Language Assessment: Proceedings of LTRC 96 (241-56). University of Jyväskylä.

1999 Kartlegging av kommunikativ kompetanse i engelsk - 6. klasse. (testing/assessment material and teacher handbook) Oslo: NLS.

2000 «The assessment of the English ability of young learners in Norwegian schools: an innovative approach». Language Testing, 17/2.

2000 «A Messick-based system for Speaking test validation». Language Testing Update, 27.

2001 «The European Language (or any other) Portfolio - making it serve assessment in the Norwegian classroom». Språk og språkundervisning 3/01. Oslo: LMS.

2002 Fluency and the small words of speaking. In Estobar, C. and A. Hasselgren: Assessing secondary school students’ oral interaction. Barcelona: Apac.

2002b. From the COLT's mouth, and others' (co-editor). Amsterdam: Rodopi.

2002c. «Sounds a bit foreign». In Breivik, L.E. and A. Hasselgren (eds). From the COLT's mouth, and others' (co-editor). Amsterdam: Rodopi.

2002d Book review: T. McNamara: Language Testing. In System, vol 30, pp 399-412.

2002e. «Learner Corpora and Language Testing: smallwords as markers of learner fluency». In S. Granger, J. Hung and S. Petch-Tyson (eds): Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2003a. «Bergen Cando Project» In W. Vagle (ed) Vurdering av Språkferdighet, pp 155-169. Trondheim: NTNU.

2003b. The Bergen-Cando Project (book and CD). Graz: ECML/Council of Europe.

2003c. «Assessment in the language classroom«. In Ohman Nielsen, M-B, R. Tønnessen and S. M. Wiland (eds): Fagdidaktikk på offensiven. Kristiansand: Høyskolen i Agder/Høyskoleforlag.

2003d «What learners (know they) can do: a research based approach to portfolio assessment in the foreign/second language classroom». In A. M. Simensen (ed): Teaching and Learning a Foreign or Second Language. Oslo: Acta Didactica.

2004 «National Testing of English, from the project leader’s perspective» Språk og språkundervisning 3/04. Oslo: LMS.

In press: Testing the Spoken English of Young Norwegians: a study of test validity and the role of «smallwords» in contributing to pupils' fluency. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Currently available on-line publications:
Report on the ENLTA European Survey of Language Testing and Assessment Needs, http://www.ealta.eu.org/
Cando Project website: http://www.ecml.at/cando/