Assessment in the learning system / John O'Dwyer. Test development and validation / Barry O'Sullivan and Cyril J. Weir -- Describing language levels / Brian North -- Testing linguistic relativity / Alan Davies -- Componentiality in L2 listening / Paul Joyce -- Benchmarking and standards in language tests / Elif Kantarcioßʹlu and Spiros papageorgious -- Producing an index of word difficulty through learner self-assessment data: an application of rasch modelling / Toshihiko Shiotsu -- An alternative approach to rating scale development / Abdul Halim Abdul Raof -- Quantifying conversational styles in group oral test discourse / Barry O'Sullivan and Fumiyo Nakatsuhara -- A cast of testing L2 English reading for class level placement / Anthony Green -- A model for the development and application of a diagnostic test for trainee foreign language teachers / Deirdre Burrell ... [et al.] -- Developing affordable "local" tests": the EXAVER project / Adriana Abad Florescano ... [et al.] -- The development and validation of an online rater training and marking system: promises and pitfalls / Annie Brown and Paul Jaquith -- Uses and impact of test scores in university admissions processes: the language test as the "hard" criterion / Pauline Rea-Dickins, Richard Kiely and Guoxing Yu -- Assessment in the learning system / John O'Dwyer.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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