Assessing Academic English: Testing English Proficiency 1950-1989 - The IELTS Solution (Studies in Language Testing) - Softcover

Davies, Alan

 
9780521542500: Assessing Academic English: Testing English Proficiency 1950-1989 - The IELTS Solution (Studies in Language Testing)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521542502 ISBN 13: 9780521542500
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The volume offers an explanatory account of the progress of academic language proficiency testing in the UK (and later Australia), from the British Council's English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB), through the revolutionary English Language Testing Service (ELTS) to the present solution of IELTS. The three stages of academic language testing in the UK over the last 50 years move from grammar through real life to features of language use. At the same time, comparison of predictive validities suggests that all three measures account for very similar shares of the variance (about 10%) and that therefore the choice of an academic language proficiency test is determined only in part by predictive validity: other factors such as test delivery, test renewal in response to fashion, research and impact on stakeholders, and assessment of all four language skills are also important.

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Book Description

This volume offers an explanatory account of the progress of academic language proficiency testing in the UK.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521542502
ISBN 13 
9780521542500
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
472

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