世界知名语言学家论丛 语言测试 英文PDF电子书下载

Section One INTRODUCTION 3

Chapter 1 Looking Back on a Lifetime in Language Testing 3

Section Two READING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE 39

Chapter 2 Reading in a Foreign Language:a Reading Problem or a Language Problem? 39

Chapter 3 Testing Reading Comprehension Skills(Part One) 68

Section Three CLOZE TESTING 87

Chapter 4 The Cloze Procedure and Proficiency in English as a Foreign Language 87

Section Four BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE AND ESP TESTS 101

Chapter 5 The Effect of Students'Academic Discipline on Their Performance on ESP Reading Tests 101

Chapter 6 New Procedures for Validating Proficiency Tests of ESP?Theory and Practice 116

Chapter 7 Air Safety,Language Assessment policy,and policy Implementation:the Case of Aviation English 132

Section Five WASHBACK 155

Chapter 8 Does Washback Exist? 155

Chapter 9 TOEFL Preparation Courses:A Study of Washback 175

Chapter 10 Testing and Teaching:The Dream and the Reality 196

Section Six TESTING AND TEACHERS 219

Chapter 11 Testing Is Too Important to Be Left tO Testers 219

Section Seven METALINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE AND TESTING 243

Chapter 12 Metalinguistic Knovleage,Language Aptitude and Language Proficiency 243

Section Eight COMPUTER-BASED TESTING 273

Chapter 13 Do Corpora Have a Role in Language Assessment? 273

Section Nine EIAGNOSTIC TESEING 289

Chapter 14 The Development of a Suite of Computer-based Diagnostic Tests Based on the Common European Framework 289

Chapter 15 The Challenge of(Diagnostic)Testing:Do We Know What We Are Measuring? 312

Section Ten CONSTRUCTS 341

Chapter 16 Judgements in Language Testing 341

Chapter 17 The Relationship Between Grammar and Reading in an English for Academic Purposes Test Battery 356

Chapter 18 Applied Linguistics and Language Testing:A Case Study of the ELTS Test 379

Section Eleven PRINCIPLES 409

Chapter 19 Standards in Testing:a Study of the Practice of UK Examination Boards in EFL/ESL Testing 409

Section Twelve POLITICS 443

Chapter 20 The Micropolitics of Research and Publication 443

Section Thirteen REFLECTIONS 479

Chapter 21 Reflections on Language Testing:What Next? 479

Bibliography 503