Language Testing: The Social Dimension

by Tim McNamara, Carsten Roever

Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Award for Best Book on Language Testing 2009 This volume focuses on the social aspects of language testing, including assessment of socially situated language use and societal consequences of language tests. The authors argue that traditional approaches to ensuring social fairness in tests go some way to addressing social concerns, but a broader perspective is necessary to examine the functions of tests on a societal scale.  

314 pages, Paperback

First published November 20, 2006

About the author

Tim McNamara is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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