Poonam Anand

Poonam Anand is an Assistant Professor in the English Language Education program at Bahrain Teachers College, University of Bahrain. Her PhD is in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies from Carleton University, Canada. She has several years of teaching experience in Bahrain and Canada as a teacher trainer as well as an ESL/EAP teacher. Currently, she teaches Assessment Methods in Education, Language Testing, and ESL content and pedagogy courses to pre-service and in-service teacher candidates. Her research interests lie in Genre-based teaching methods, assessment of English for academic purposes literacies, and assessment of Young Language Learners. She is keen on questions arising from the social impact of high stakes examinations, issues of validity in test use, and various assessment models of second languages.

Publications

An Application of Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Theory to the Assessment of Academic Literacies: Reflections From a Teacher Training College
Poonam Anand, Parween Ebrahim. © 2024. 32 pages.
The chapter compares the assessment paradigms of summative and formative assessments of English for academic purposes literacies (EAPL) as experienced by teacher candidates in a...
Assessment of EAP Literacies in Diverse and Multilingual Classrooms
Poonam Anand. © 2022. 19 pages.
Older views of the English for Academic Purposes Literacies (EAPL) assessment have been in line with the assessment of the four-skills second language (L2) competencies. However...
Equitable Assessment and Evaluation of Young Language Learners: Reflections From a Teacher Training Context
Poonam Anand, Starr Ackley. © 2021. 24 pages.
This chapter discusses major contributions in research and professional assessment development and reviews key classifications in young language learner assessment (YLLA). Using...
Assessment of EAP Literacies in Diverse and Multilingual Classrooms
Poonam Anand. © 2020. 19 pages.
Older views of the English for Academic Purposes Literacies (EAPL) assessment have been in line with the assessment of the four-skills second language (L2) competencies. However...