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CAMBRIDGE LANGUAGE TEACHING LIBRARY ‘A series covering central issues in language teaching and learning, by authors who hhave expert knowledge in thei field. Ti this series ‘Affect in Language Learning edited by Jane Arnold ‘Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Second Eaition ‘by Jack C. Richards and Theodore S. Rodgers Beyond Training by Jack C. Richards ‘Gassroom Decision-Making edited by Michael Breen and Andrew Litlejoba Collaborative Action Research for English Language Teachers by Anne Burs Collaborative Language Learning and Teaching edited by David Nunan ‘Communicative Language Teaching by William Litlewood Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom by David Nuan Developing Reading Skills by Francoise Grelet Developments in English for Specific Purposes by Tony Dudley-Evans and ‘Magpie Jo St John Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers by Michael McCarthy Discourse and Language Education by Evelyn Hatch “The Dynamics ofthe Language Classroom by lan Tudor English for Academic Purposes by R.R. Jordan English for Specific Purposes by Tom Hutchinson and Alan Waters Establishing Self-Access by David Gardner and Lindsay Miler Foreign and Second Language Learning by William: Littlewood Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective edited by Michael Byram and Michael Fleming “The Language Teaching Matrix by Jack C. Richards ‘Language Test Construction and Evaluation by J. Charles Alderson, Caroline Clapham, and Dianne Wall Learnercentcedness as Language Education by lan Tudor ‘Managing Curcieular Innovation by Nuwna Markee Materials Development in Language Teaching edited by Brian Tomlinson Motivational Strategies ithe Language Classroom by Zoltin Dérmyei Psychology for Language Teachers by Marion Williams and Robert L. Burden Research Methods in Language Learning by David Nuenant Second Language Teacher Education edived by Jack C. Richards and David Numan Society and the Language Classroom edited by Hywel Coleman Teaching Languages to Young Learners by Lyme Cameron “Teacher Learning in Language Teaching edited by Donald Freeman and Jack C. Richards ‘Vaderstanding Rescarch in Second Language Learning by James Dean Brown ‘Vocabulary: Description, Acquistion and Pedagogy edited by Norbert Schmitt and Michael MeCardby ‘Vocabulary, Semantics, and Language Education by Evelyn Hatch and Cheryl Brown ‘Voices From the Language Classroom edited by Kathleen M. Bailey and David Nunan | Testing for Language Teachers Second Edition Arthur Hughes [PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ‘The Pte Building, Teumpington Steet, Cambridge, United Kingdom (cannaDGe untvnnstry rREss ‘The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cnz anu, UK 4 West aoth Sireet, New York, x¥1001 1-421, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, ic 3207, Australia Role de Alarcon 15, 28024 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town Soox, South Africa bupyfwerw.cambridge.org © Cambridge University Press 1989, 2003 “This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, hho reproduction of any part may take place withomt the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1989 Second edition 2003, Reprinted 2003 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge ‘Typeface Sabon 0.5/2. System QuarkXPress® [Det] A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library spn 0 521 823250 hardback spn 0 521 484952 paperback For Vicky, Meg and Jake Contents Acknowledgements Preface 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 Stages of test development 8 Common test techniques 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 page x 8 26 36 33 st 75 83 5 136 160 x 186 199

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