【Contents】
Section One INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Looking Back on a Lifetime in Language Testing
Section Two READING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Chapter 2 Reading in a Foreign Language:a Reading Problem or a Language Problem?
Chapter 3 Testing Reading Comprehension Skills( Part One )
Section Three CLOZE TESTING
Chapter 4 The Cloze Procedure and Proficiency in English as a Foreign language
Section Four BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE AND ESP TESTS
Chapter 5 The Effect of Students' Academic Discipline on Their Performance on ESP Reading Tests
Chapter 6 New Procedures for Validating Proficiency Tests of ESP?Theory and Practice
Chapter 7 Air Safety, Language Assessment Policy, and Policy Implementation:the Case of Aviation English
Section Five WASHBACK
Chapter 8 Does Washback Exist?
Chapter 9 TOEFL Preparation Courses:A Study of Washback
Chapter 10 Testing and Teaching The Dream and the Reality
Section Six TESTING AND TEACHER
Chapter 11 Testing Is Too Important to Be Left to Testers
Section Seven METALINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE AND TESTING
Chapter 12 Metalinguistic Knowledge, Language Aptitude and Language Proficiency
Section Eight COMPUTER-BASED TESTING
Chapter 13 Do Corpora Have a Role in Language Assessment?
Section Nine DIAG NOSTIC TESTING
Chapter 14 The Development of a Suite of Compu ter-based Diagnostic Tests Based on the Common European Framework
Chapter 15 The Challenge of( Diagnostic) Testing:Do We Know What We Are Measuring?
Section Ten CONSTRUCTS
Chapter 16 Judgements in Language Testing
Chapter 17 The Relationship Between Grammar and Reading in an English for Academic Purposes Test Battery
Chapter 18 Applied Linguistics and Language Testing:A Case Study of the elts test
Section Eleven PRINCIPLES
Chapter 19 Standards in Testing:a Study of the Practice of UK Examination Boards in EFL/ESL Testing
Section twelve POLItICS
Chapter 20 The Micropolitics of Research and Publication
Section Thirteen REFLECTIONS
Chapter 21 Reflections on Language Testing:What Next?
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