Challenges in Language Testing Around the World : Insights for language test users
- Author
- Betty Lanteigne, Christine Coombe, James Dean Brown
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Education
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This book combines insights from language assessment literacy and critical language testing through critical analyses and research about challenges in language assessment around the world. It investigates problematic practices in language testing which are relevant to language test users such as language program directors, testing centers, and language teachers, as well as teachers-in-training in Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics programs. These issues involve aspects of language testing such as test development, test administration, scoring, and interpretation/use of test results.
Keywords: Linguistics / Language Education / Assessment and Testing / Language Assessment Literacy / Critical Language Testing / Issues in Language Testing / Test Development / Test Administration / Test Scoring / Score Interpretation and Use / Consequential Validity
