Bøker av Cyril J. Weir

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

This book tells the story of the British Council's seventy-five year involvement in the field of English language testing.

This text aims to synthesize the state of research with regard to the teaching and testing of reading in a second language. It examines the psychology of reading, models of the reading process and various theories, and discusses the development of reading tests and teaching practice.

Tests for the measurement of language abilities must be constructed according to a coherent validity framework based on the latest developments in theory and practice. This innovative book, by a world authority on language testing, deals with all key aspects of language test design and implementation.

This volume establishes how English language constructs were measured in Cambridge English examinations over the period 1913 to 2012.