Many English-language universities require standardized language testing.
After the survey questionnaire was designed, it was first sent to five colleagues in the language testing community for comment, including three professors who taught language testing courses in the university with practical language testing experience in the Chinese context, and two Ph.D. candidates studying and researching language testing and assessment.
Assessing speaking is one of the most difficult tasks in computer based language testing.
The IBT TOEFL has become the principal example of online high stakes language testing since 2005.
Messick's unitary concept of validity influenced language testing through Bachman's 1990 work (Cumming and Berwick 1996; Kunnan 1998).
In 2013 LTA published a special issue: Language Testing in the Philippines, with Sterling Plata as guest editor.
Dynamic assessments in general, and game-based assessment (GBA) specifically, compel us to rethink prevailing language testing conceptualizations of context.
The statistical analysis technique of correlation has extensively been used in second/foreign language testing research for a variety of purposes.
It is hoped that this research will prompt the tests' developers to move in that direction and adopt what is now standard practice for large scale language testing.
"It's a huge waste of taxpayer money and resources," said Brian Allen, who is an expert witness in the tribunal courts for Bajuni language testing.
This aspect of communication competence cannot be addressed with a pre-emptive reliance on formal language testing alonee.
