Current developments in language testing - Hughes, Arthur 1941-; Porter, Don 1938- (Academic Press, 1983)
Contents: Keynote paper: The structure of foreign language competence / Helmut J. Vollmer -- Response to Vollmer: Where now? / Arthur Hughes -- Response to Vollmer: "g", what is it? / John W. Oller, Jr. -- Fourteen years on : later thoughts on overall language proficiency / Bernard Spolsky -- Principal components and factor analysis in the investigation of the structure of language proficiency / Anthony Woods -- Interpreting the performance on the Cambridge proficiency examination of students of different language backgrounds / Arthur Hughes and Anthony Woods -- The effect of quantity of context on the ability to make linguistic predictions : a flaw in a measure of general proficiency / Don Porter -- Keynote paper: Communicative testing : Jam tomorrow? / Andrew Harrison -- Response to Harrison: Who needs Jam? / Charles Alderson -- Assessment of pupil schievement in the Independent evaluation of Tour de France / Brian Parkinson -- Keynote paper: Issues in the testing of language for specific purposes / Brendan Carroll -- Response to Carroll: Some comments on issues / Keith Morrow -- The effect of student background discipline on comprehension : a pilot study / Charles Alderson and A.H. Urquhart -- The English Language Testing Service (ELTS) : two issues in the design of the new "non-academic module" / Ian Seaton -- The validity of concurrent validation / Alan Davies -- The Associated Examining Board's Test of English for academic purposes : an exercise in content validation / Cyril Weir
Papers delivered at a seminar held under the auspices of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Reading University, Dec. 1981. Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-162) and index. Editor of series: David Crystal
Keywords: Classement et notation (Élèves et étudiants); Langage et langues - Examens - Congrès; Langage et langues - Tests d'aptitude - Congrès; Langues vivantes - Étude et enseignement; Sprache; Language and languages -- Ability testing -- Congresses; Language and languages -- Examinations -- Congresses; Sprachtest; Aufsatzsammlung; Konferenzschrift -- 1981 -- Reading