Issues in Testing Business English
Subtitle: The Revision of the Cambridge Business English Certificates (Studies in Language Testing)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521813488
Subjects: Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language
First sentence: Though there have been formal tests of general proficiency around for many years - see Weir (2003a) for an interesting and informative historical perspective on the Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) since its introduction in 1913 - interest in language for specific purposes has a far shorter history, emerging, according to Swales (1984:11) with Barber's (1962) Some Measurable Characteristics of Modern Scientific Prose.