Section One INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Looking Back on a Lifetime in Language Testing
Section Two READING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Chapter 2 Reading in a Foreign Language:a Reading Problem or a
Language Problem?
Chapter 3 Testing Reading Comprehension SkillsPart One
Section Three CLOZE TESTING
Chapter 4 The Cloze Procedure and Proficiency in English as a
Foreign Language
Section Four BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE AND ESP TESTS
Chapter 5 The EffeCt of Students’Academic Discipline on Their
Performance on ESP Reading Tests
Chapter 6 New Procedures for Validating Proficiency Tests of
ESP?Theory and Practice
Chapter 7 Air Safety,Language Assessment Policy,and Policy
Implementation:the Case of Aviation English
Section Five WASHBAC K
Chapter 8 Does Washback Exist?
Chapter 9 TOEFL Preparation Courses:A Study of Washback
Chapter 10 Testing and Teaching:The Dream and the Reality
Section Six TESTING AND TEACHERS
Chapter 11 Testing Is Too Important to Be Left to Testers
Section Seven METALINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE AND TESTING
Chapter 12 Metalinguistic Knowledge,Language Aptitude and
Language Proficiency
Section Eight COMPUTER-BASED TESTING
Chapter 13 Do Corpora Have a Role in Language Assessment?
Section Nine DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
Chapter 14 The Development of a Suite of Computer-based
Diagnostic Tests Based on the Common European Framework.
Chapter 15 The Challenge ofDiagnosticTesting:Do We Know What We
Are Measuring?
Section Ten CONSTRUCTS
Chapter 16 Judgements in Language Testing
Chapter 17 The Relationship Between Grammar and Reading in an
English for Academic Purposes Test Battery
Chapter 18 Appfied Linguistics and Language Testing:A Case Study
of the ELTS Test
Section Eleven PRINCIPLES
Chapter 19 Standards in Testing:a Study of the Practice of UK
Examination Boards in EFL/ESL Testing
Section Twelve POLITICS
Chapter 20 The Micropolitics of Research and Publication
Section Thirteen REFLECTIONS
Chapter 21 Reflections on Language Testing:What Next?
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