Language Testing

Language Testing: Theories and Practices offers a coherent overview of some of the key issues currently dominating the language testing profession. By bringing together a large group of authors from across the world who are actively engaged in language testing in different ways, from the practitioner to the academic, the book succeeds in highlighting a number of central ideas, the interpretation of which is to modern testing. These ideas (validation, localization, professionalization, reflexivity and politicization) are central to the chapters, which offer the reader an opportunity to see how language testers envisage the discipline developing in the coming years. The work included here will appeal to the expert and non-expert reader. The authors present their ideas and evidences in an informative yet accessible style and offer a unique glimpse of the broad range of interests, methodologies and concerns that define language testing.

Series Preface Acknowledgements List Of Contributors Introduction; B.O'Sullivan Test Development and Validation; B.O'Sullivan & C.J.Weir Describing Language Levels; B.North Testing Linguistic Relativity; A.Davies Componentiality in L2 Listening; P.Joyce Benchmarking and Standards in Language Tests; E.Kantarcıoğlu & S.Papageorgiou Producing an Index of Word Difficulty Through Learner Self-Assessment Data: An Application of Rasch Modelling; T.Shiotsu An Alternative Approach to Rating Scale Development; A.H.A.Raof Quantifying Conversational Styles in Group Oral Test Discourse; B.O'Sullivan & F.Nakatsuhara A Case of Testing L2 English Reading for Class Level Placement; A.Green A Model for the Development and Application of a Diagnostic Test for Trainee Foreign Language Teachers; D.Burrell, U.Graham, D.Medley, B.Richards & J.Roberts Developing Affordable 'Local' Tests: The Exaver Project, A.A.Florescano, B.O'Sullivan, C.S.Chavez, D.E.Ryan, E.Z.Lara, L.A.S.Martinez, M.I.G.Macias, M.M. Hart, P.E.Grounds, P.R.Ryan, R.A.Dunne & T.De Jesus Romero Barradas The Development and Validation of an Online Rater Training and Marking System: Promises and Pitfalls; A.Brown & P.Jaquith The 'Hard' Criterion: The Use of Language Test Information in University Admissions Processes; P.Rea-Dickins, R.Kiely & G.Yu Assessment in the Learning System; J.O'Dwyer Index

BARRY O'SULLIVAN is Director of the Centre for Language Assessment Research at Roehampton University, UK. He has written two books, Issues in Business English Testing and Modelling Performance in Tests of Spoken Language and works with ministries, universities and examination boards around the world.

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