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Language testing in practice : designing and developing useful langauge tests / Lyle F. Bachman and Adrian S. Palmer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford applied linguisticsPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Edition: Reprinted editionDescription: vi, 377 pagess : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0194371484
  • 9780194371483
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 22 418.0076  BAC
Contents:
Part One: Conceptual bases of test development; Objectives and expectations -- Test usefulness: qualities of language tests -- Describing tasks: language use in language tests -- Describing language ability: Language use in language tests -- Part Two: Language test development; Overview of test development -- Describing, identifying, and defining -- Developing a plan for the evaluation of usefulness -- Identifying, allocating, and managing resources -- Operationalization: developing test tasks and blueprints -- Preparing effective instructions -- Scoring method -- Language test administration -- Part Three: Illustrative test development projects
Summary: Relates language testing practice to views of communicative language teaching and testing. Divided into three sections, this book builds on the theoretical background expounded in Bachman's "Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing", and examines the design, planning, and organization of tests.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: Conceptual bases of test development; Objectives and expectations -- Test usefulness: qualities of language tests -- Describing tasks: language use in language tests -- Describing language ability: Language use in language tests --
Part Two: Language test development; Overview of test development -- Describing, identifying, and defining -- Developing a plan for the evaluation of usefulness -- Identifying, allocating, and managing resources -- Operationalization: developing test tasks and blueprints -- Preparing effective instructions -- Scoring method -- Language test administration --
Part Three: Illustrative test development projects

Relates language testing practice to views of communicative language teaching and testing. Divided into three sections, this book builds on the theoretical background expounded in Bachman's "Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing", and examines the design, planning, and organization of tests.

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