A Qualitative Approach to the Validation of Oral Language Tests (Studies in Language Testing)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 26, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521802277
Subjects: Applied linguistics for ELT; ELT: speaking / pronunciation skills; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Education; English as a Second Language; General; Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading
First sentence: From its historical roots in the United Kingdom in 1913, and later in 1930 in the United States, the testing of English for speakers of other languages has become what we think of as modern language testing today (see Spolsky 1990, 1995 for a detailed examination of this topic).