1300 187 187
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 | p. ix |
| acknowledgements | p. xii |
| list of tables and figures | p. xiii |
| list of contributors | p. xvi |
| introduction | p. 1 |
| test development and validation | p. 13 |
| describing language levels | p. 33 |
| testing linguistic relativity | p. 60 |
| componentiality in L2 listening | p. 71 |
| benchmarking and standards in language tests | p. 94 |
| producing an index of word difficulty through learner self-assessment data: an application of rasch modelling | p. 111 |
| an alternative approach to rating scale development | p. 151 |
| quantifying conversational styles in group oral test discourse | p. 164 |
| a case of testing L2 english reading for class level placement | p. 186 |
| a model for the development and application of a diagnostic test for trainee foreign language teachers | p. 208 |
| developing affordable ôlocalö tests: the EXAVER project | p. 228 |
| the development and validation of an online rater training and marking system: promises and pitfalls | p. 244 |
| uses and impact of test scores in university admissions processes: the language test as the ôhardö criterion | p. 262 |
| assessment in the learning system | p. 282 |
| index | p. 305 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780230230620
ISBN-10: 0230230628
Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 328
Published: 15th July 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions (cm): 22.3 x 14.4
x 1.7
Weight (kg): 0.517
9am - 4pm AEST, Monday - Friday
