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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

Author

Alan, Ph D Davies

Publisher

Basil Blackwell

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780631173434

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Humanities