A Backward and Forward Glance at Language Testing
The description of the present and future trends in language testing begins with a survey of the history of language testing originated from and closely linked with mental and educational tests. Researchers distinguish three historical periods (or rather trends) of language testing in the twentieth century: pre-scientific, psychometric-structuralistic and psycholinguistic-sociolinguistic. Many important national and international language tests are moving to computer based testing, viewed as a more practical alternative to paper-and-pencil testing. The next generation of computer based tests is considered to be computerized adaptive tests. Two significant language assessment products as applications of adaptive testing for large-scale language testing are presented.
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Issue: 9, 2006
Series of issue: Humanities (Philology)
Rubric: Topical Problems of Foreign Language Teaching
Pages: 75 — 81
Downloads: 1107