Date: 04-May-2007 From: Francesca Filippelli <francesca.filippellitaylorandfrancis.com> Subject: Language Testing and Assessment: Fulcher, Davidson
Title: Language Testing and Assessment
Subtitle: An Advanced Resource Book
Series Title: Routledge Applied Linguistics
Published: 2007
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Author: Glenn Fulcher
Author: Fred Davidson
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415339469 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415339476 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 33.95
Abstract:
Language Testing and Assessment:
*introduces students to the key methods and debates surrounding language testing and assessment
*explores the testing of linguistic competence of children, students, asylum seekers and many others in context of the uses to which such research can be put
*presents influential and seminal readings in testing and assessment by names such as Michael Canale and Merrill Swain, Michael Kane, Alan Davies, Lee Cronbach and Paul Meehl and Pamela Moss.
Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Language Testing and Assessment is an essential resource for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.