Books in the Studies in Language Testing series

This volume contains a selection of research papers that were presented at the 15th Annual Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC).

This book investigates the influence of test taker characteristics on performance in tests of English as a foreign language by exploring the relationships between these two groups of variables.

This book analyses the impact of the IELTS test and the Progetto Lingue programme on a range of stakeholders.

This volume reports research that informs the development of reading and listening assessment in IELTS.

The book examines the nature of second language speaking proficiency and how it can be assessed.

This volume outlines the general principles of Learning Oriented Assessment (LOA), placing it in the context of European language learning policy.

This volume contains ten research studies which informed the revised IELTS Speaking and Writing Modules, 2001 and 2005.

This book investigates the relationships between learner strategy use and performance.

This volume documents the revision of the Certificate in Proficiency in English (CPE) 1991 to 2002.

This Dictionary of Language Testing contains some 600 entries on language assessment

The glossary, produced by ALTE, contains entries in ten languages, and is available in CD-ROM

This book aims to provide language testers with a background in the conversation analytic framework.

This book offers insights into the concept that a test can be used to encourage innovation in the classroom.

This book studies the effect of background knowledge on reading comprehension and investigates whether tertiary level English language students should be given reading proficiency tests in their own academic subject areas.

This book aims to provide practitioners of Verbal protocol analysis with understanding and background

This volume describes the theory and practice of Cambridge ESOL's approach to assessing second language writing ability.

This volume offers an explanatory account of the progress of academic language proficiency testing in the UK.

This book describes the revision of the Cambridge ESOL Business English certificates, offering a unique insight into test revision.