Language testing
Subtitle: theories and practices
By: edited by Barry O'Sullivan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780230230637
Subjects: Examinations; Study and teaching; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching; Ability testing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General; Language and languages
Description: "Based in the present, but with the main focus on the future, international contributors give a coherent overview of some of the key contemporary issues in Language Testing, but crucially also offer the reader insight into the future direction of the field"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Introduction; title: PART I: TEST THEORIES, EVIDENCE AND OUR UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE; title: PART II: BROADENING THE BOUNDARIES: NEW RESEARCH APPROACHES; title: PART III: ISSUES OF LOCALISATION AND FRAGMENTATION; title: PART IV: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR POLARISATION: TESTERS AND TEST STAKEHOLDERS; title: Index.