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

This book aims to provide language testers with a background in the conversation analytic framework.

This volume reports on the development of the Advanced English Reading Test in China.

This volume documents the revision of the Certificate in Proficiency in English (CPE) 1991 to 2002

This book offers insights into the concept that a test can be used to encourage innovation in the classroom.

This Dictionary of Language Testing contains some 600 entries on language assessmen

A collection of 28 invited papers surveying the state of the art in language testing.

Proceedings of the 2001 ALTE conference.

This volume examines the historical development of the First Certificate in English (FCE) and the Certificate in Advanced English (CAE).

The book examines the nature of second language reading proficiency and how it can be assessed.

This volume describes the theory and practice of Cambridge ESOL's approach to assessing second language writing ability.

This volume explores the social and educational impact of language testing and assessment.

This book documents the speaking component of a test designed for immigrants to Australia.

This collection of papers from 19th LTRC brought to sharp focus Fairness in Language Testing.

This book analyses the impact of the IELTS test and the Progetto Lingue programme on a range of stakeholders.

This volume contains ten research studies which informed the revised IELTS Speaking and Writing Modules, 2001 and 2005.

This volume investigates the washback of the IELTS Writing test on English for Academic Purposes provision.

The focus of this book is computer based assessment of the receptive skills.

This book describes the revision of the Cambridge ESOL Business English certificates, offering a unique insight into test revision.

This book investigates the relationships between learner strategy use and performance.

The glossary, produced by ALTE, contains entries in ten languages, and is available in CD-ROM.

The volume explores the impact of multilingualism on language assessment, including setting common standards and sustaining linguistic diversity.

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This book reports on a two-part study: the validation of a test of spoken English for Norwegian secondary school pupils and the corpus-based investigation of the role played by 'smallwords'.

This study analyses the effects of an examination which was designed to serve as a 'lever for change'.