Issues in Testing Business English
Subtitle: The Revision of the Cambridge Business English Certificates (Studies in Language Testing)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521013307
Subjects: Applied linguistics for ELT; Language; Foreign Language Study; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; English; English as a Second Language; Technical Writing; Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; Ability testing; Business English; English language; Examinations
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.