J.Charles Alderson是世界知名语言学家，曾在多个国家的高校执教语言学课程，几十年来尤其致力于语言测试的研究，成就斐然，是语言测试研究领域的领军人物之一。
内容简介
本书《语言测试》汇集了作者自1984年至2009年间发表过的关于语言测试的精华论文，涉及了外语阅读、完形填空、反拨作用、基于计算机的测试、诊断测试等各个方面的研究，对语言测试感兴趣的读者必能从中获得启发和借鉴。
目录
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 Skills(Part 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 of(Diagnostic)Testing：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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