Testing for Language Teachers

Arthur Hughes

Cambridge University Press, 2003 - Foreign Language Study - 251 pages

1 Teaching and testing 2 Testing as problem solving: an overview of the book 3 Kinds of tests and testing 4 Validity 5 Reliability 6 Achieving beneficial backwash 7 Common test techniques 8 Stages of test development 9 Testing writing 10 Testing oral ability 11 Testing reading 12 Testing listening 13 Testing grammar and vocabulary 14 Testing overall ability 15 Tests for young learners 16 Test administration.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Testing for Language Teachers; Cambridge Language Teaching Library
• Author: Arthur Hughes
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0521823250, 9780521823258
• Length: 251 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching