A Modular Approach to Testing English Language Skills: The Development of the Certificates in English Language Skills (CELS) Examinations (Studies in Language Testing)

Roger Hawkey

ISBN 10: 0521013321 / ISBN 13: 9780521013321

Published by Cambridge University Press 2011-05-27, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Modular Approach to Testing English Language Skills: The Development of the Certificates in English Language Skills (CELS) Examinations (Studies in Language Testing)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2011-05-27
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521013321
• ISBN 13: 9780521013321
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Documents the development of the Cambridge ESOL Certificates in English Language Skills (CELS), a suite of modular examinations first offered in 2002. As a context for how CELS was conceived, developed, constructed, validated and managed, the book traces the history of exams which have influenced CELS. The Royal Society of Arts (RSA), later UCLES (University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate) Communicative Use of English as a Foreign Language examinations (CUEFL) was one such influence, as were the Certificates in Communication Skills in English (CCSE), these exams being a development of the CUEFL. The University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations (UODLE) examinations, taken over by UCLES in 1995, were a further influence on CELS. UODLE itself had worked in partnership with the Association of Recognised Language Schools (ARELS) Examinations Trust, the Oxford EFL reading and writing exams for many years offered in tandem with the ARELS Oral English exams.

Book Description

This volume documents the development of the Cambridge ESOL Certificates in English Language Skills (CELS), a suite of modular examinations first offered in 2002.