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Practical Language Testing
Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests.
This intensely practical book gives guidelines on the design of assessments within the classroom, and provides the necessary tools to analyse and improve assessments, as well as deal with alignment to externally imposed standards. Testing is situated both within the classroom and within the larger social context, and readers are provided the knowledge necessary to make realistic and fair decisions about the use and implementation of tests. The book explains the normative role of large scale testing and provides alternatives that the reader can adapt to their own context. This fulfils the dual purpose of providing the reader with the knowledge they need to prepare learners for tests, and the practical skills for using assessment for learning.
Practical Language Testing is the ideal introduction for students of applied linguistics, TESOL and modern foreign language teaching as well as practicing teachers required to design or implement language testing programmes.
The book is supported by frequently updated online resources at including sets of scenarios providing resources to study aviation English assessment, call centre assessment, military language assessment, and medical language assessment. The materials can be used to structure debates and seminars, with pre-reading and video activities.
Practical Language Testing was commended as a 2012 runner-up of the prestigious SAGE/ILTA Award for Best Book on Language Testing.
This intensely practical book gives guidelines on the design of assessments within the classroom, and provides the necessary tools to analyse and improve assessments, as well as deal with alignment to externally imposed standards. Testing is situated both within the classroom and within the larger social context, and readers are provided the knowledge necessary to make realistic and fair decisions about the use and implementation of tests. The book explains the normative role of large scale testing and provides alternatives that the reader can adapt to their own context. This fulfils the dual purpose of providing the reader with the knowledge they need to prepare learners for tests, and the practical skills for using assessment for learning.
Practical Language Testing is the ideal introduction for students of applied linguistics, TESOL and modern foreign language teaching as well as practicing teachers required to design or implement language testing programmes.
The book is supported by frequently updated online resources at including sets of scenarios providing resources to study aviation English assessment, call centre assessment, military language assessment, and medical language assessment. The materials can be used to structure debates and seminars, with pre-reading and video activities.
Practical Language Testing was commended as a 2012 runner-up of the prestigious SAGE/ILTA Award for Best Book on Language Testing.
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368 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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May 30, 2011
This is one of the best books on language testing I've read. It explains the use of language tests in society, and approaches it from both historical and philosophical perspectives, placing practices in the context of the history of thought. The critical insights are very challenging. The book achieves more than this though. It explains how language tests are designed and created. It also has really good practical activities to help teachers and applied linguistics students practice the skills they'll need to develop useful tests and assessments. Lots of teachers are afraid of the numbers that language testers use. This book kind of demystifies all of that. One of the things I liked was that the author has a website that supports reading and learning with this text. It seems to be updated on a daily basis! Some achievement. It's worth visiting: http://languagetesting.info
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