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• catalog abstract "Beginning with the view that language testing lies at the core of both language teaching and applied linguistics, Davies presents an account of the principles and place of language testing. He proposes that educators must accept the need to compromise between explicitness and uncertainty. Language testing lies at the core of both language teaching and applied linguistics. This is the challenging view set out by Alan Davies in this account of the principles and place of language testing today. Testing provides a means of establishing goals and standards for courses and syllabuses. For both teacher and learner it monitors success in attaining targets. But testing too provides a methodology for experiment and investigation in applied linguistics. Not only does it lend its techniques to research throughout discipline, but it also encapsulates many fundamental issues in the field. The practice of testing raises pervasive questions for example about the sampling of language and the problems of establishing reliable and valid criteria. Central to this book is the view that teachers and researchers must always accept the need creatively to compromise between the demand for explicitness and the underlying uncertainty of language testing. Drawing on many years experience and reflection, this is a considered and thoughtful account of the principles and procedures fundamental to language testing. -- Publisher description.".
• catalog contributor b2873667.
• catalog created "1990.".
• catalog date "1990".
• catalog date "1990.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1990.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction --- 2. Requirements of Language Tests --- 3. Language Test Purposes --- 4. Language Test Validation --- 5. Uncertainty and Explicitness --- 6. Language Testing and Applied Linguistics --- 7. Language Tests and Evaluation: Preliminaries --- 8. Language Tests and Evaluation: Examples 1 --- 9. Language Tests and Evaluation: Examples 2.".
• catalog description "Beginning with the view that language testing lies at the core of both language teaching and applied linguistics, Davies presents an account of the principles and place of language testing. He proposes that educators must accept the need to compromise between explicitness and uncertainty.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-1430 and indexes.".
• catalog description "Language testing lies at the core of both language teaching and applied linguistics. This is the challenging view set out by Alan Davies in this account of the principles and place of language testing today. Testing provides a means of establishing goals and standards for courses and syllabuses. For both teacher and learner it monitors success in attaining targets. But testing too provides a methodology for experiment and investigation in applied linguistics. Not only does it lend its techniques to research throughout discipline, but it also encapsulates many fundamental issues in the field. The practice of testing raises pervasive questions for example about the sampling of language and the problems of establishing reliable and valid criteria. Central to this book is the view that teachers and researchers must always accept the need creatively to compromise between the demand for explicitness and the underlying uncertainty of language testing. Drawing on many years experience and reflection, this is a considered and thoughtful account of the principles and procedures fundamental to language testing. -- Publisher description.".
• catalog extent "viii, 147 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0631173420 :".
• catalog identifier "0631173439 (pbk.)".
• catalog isPartOf "Applied language studies".
• catalog issued "1990".
• catalog issued "1990.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell,".
• catalog subject "418/.0076 20".
• catalog subject "Applied linguistics.".
• catalog subject "Language and languages Ability testing.".
• catalog subject "Language and languages Study and teaching.".
• catalog subject "P53.4 .D37 1990".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction --- 2. Requirements of Language Tests --- 3. Language Test Purposes --- 4. Language Test Validation --- 5. Uncertainty and Explicitness --- 6. Language Testing and Applied Linguistics --- 7. Language Tests and Evaluation: Preliminaries --- 8. Language Tests and Evaluation: Examples 1 --- 9. Language Tests and Evaluation: Examples 2.".
• catalog title "Principles of language testing / Alan Davies.".
• catalog type "text".