Testing Second Language Speaking (Applied Linguistics and Language Study) - Hardcover

Fulcher, Glenn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138139793 ISBN 13: 9781138139794

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

The testing and assessment of second language learners is an essential part of the language learning process. Glenn Fulcher's Testing Second Language Speaking is a state-of-the-art volume that considers the assessment of speaking from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives.

The book offers the first systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the testing of second language speaking. Written in a clear and accessible manner, it covers:

• Explanations of the process of test design
• Costing test design projects
• How to put the test into practice
• Evaluation of speaking tests
• Task types for testing speaking
• Testing learners with disabilities

It also contains a wealth of examples, including task types that are commonly used in speaking tests, approaches to researching speaking tests and specific methodologies that teachers, students and test developers may use in their own projects.

Successfully integrating practice and theory, this book demystifies the process of testing speaking and provides a thorough treatment of the key ethical and technical issues in speaking evaluation.

About this title

Review:

'an in depth study and evaluation of methods used, theory behind  and necessary standards within the realm of test and assessment of a speaker's ability in a second language.'

'...clear and concise...'

Fulcher: Testing Second Language Speaking

About the Author:

Glenn Fulcher is Director, Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Dundee

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138139793
• ISBN 13: 9781138139794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310