Testing for Language Teachers

by Arthur Hughes

Overview

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

	Acknowledgements	ix
	Preface	xi
1	Teaching and testing	1
2	Testing as problem solving: an overview of the book	8
3	Kinds of tests and testing	11
4	Validity	26
5	Reliability	36
6	Achieving beneficial backwash	53
7	Stages of test development	58
8	Common test techniques	75
9	Testing writing	83
10	Testing oral ability	113
11	Testing reading	136
12	Testing listening	160
13	Testing grammar and vocabulary	172
14	Testing overall ability	186
15	Tests for young learners	199
16	Test administration	215
Appendix 1	The statistical analysis of test data	218
Appendix 2	Item banking	234
Appendix 3	Questions on the New Zealand youth hostels passage	236
	Bibliography	237
	Subject Index	246
	Author Index	250