Testing for Language Teachers
This second edition remains the most practical guide for teachers who want to have a better understanding of the role of testing in language teaching. It has a new chapter on testing young learners and expanded chapters on common test techniques and testing overall ability.
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Testing for Language Teachers
This second edition remains the most practical guide for teachers who want to have a better understanding of the role of testing in language teaching. It has a new chapter on testing young learners and expanded chapters on common test techniques and testing overall ability.
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Testing for Language Teachers

Testing for Language Teachers

by Arthur Hughes
Testing for Language Teachers

Testing for Language Teachers

by Arthur Hughes

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This second edition remains the most practical guide for teachers who want to have a better understanding of the role of testing in language teaching. It has a new chapter on testing young learners and expanded chapters on common test techniques and testing overall ability.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521484954
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/12/2002
Series: Cambridge Language Teaching Library
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsix
Prefacexi
1Teaching and testing1
2Testing as problem solving: an overview of the book8
3Kinds of tests and testing11
4Validity26
5Reliability36
6Achieving beneficial backwash53
7Stages of test development58
8Common test techniques75
9Testing writing83
10Testing oral ability113
11Testing reading136
12Testing listening160
13Testing grammar and vocabulary172
14Testing overall ability186
15Tests for young learners199
16Test administration215
Appendix 1The statistical analysis of test data218
Appendix 2Item banking234
Appendix 3Questions on the New Zealand youth hostels passage236
Bibliography237
Subject Index246
Author Index250
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