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

This volume explores the social and educational impact of language testing and assessment.

The volume explores the impact of multilingualism on language assessment, including setting common standards and sustaining linguistic diversity.

This volume examines the historical development of the First Certificate in English (FCE) and the Certificate in Advanced English (CAE).

This volume investigates the washback of the IELTS Writing test on English for Academic Purposes provision.

This study analyses the effects of an examination which was designed to serve as a 'lever for change'.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 reports on the development of the Advanced English Reading Test in China.

This volume describes differing approaches to understanding academic reading ability that have emerged in recent decades and goes on to develop an empirically-grounded framework for validating tests of this skill.

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

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

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

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

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

An account of how children learn L2s in formal contexts and how that knowledge impacts on the design, development, and evaluation of their language assessment products.

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

This collection of papers from 19th LTRC brought to sharp focus Fairness in Language Testing.

This book documents a major study comparing the Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE) with the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).