Language testing and assessment
Subtitle: an advanced resource book
By: Glenn Fulcher and Fred Davidson.
Contributors: Davidson, Fred.
Series: Routledge applied linguistics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780415339476; 9780415339469; 9780203449066
Subjects: Language and languages -- Ability testing
Description: Introduces students to the key methods and debates surrounding language testing and assessment. Explores the testing of linguistic competence of children, students, asylum seekers and many others in context of the uses to which such research can be put. Presents influential and seminal readings in testing and assessment by names such as Michael Canale and Merrill Swain, Michael Kane, Alan Davies, Lee Cronbach and Paul Meehl and Pamela Moss.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-395) and index.