This book combines insights from language assessment literacy and
critical language testing through critical analyses and research about
challenges in language assessment around the world. It investigates
problematic practices in language testing which are relevant to language
test users such as language program directors, testing centers, and
language teachers, as well as teachers-in-training in Graduate Diploma
and Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics programs. These issues involve
aspects of language testing such as test development, test
administration, scoring, and interpretation/use of test results.
Chapters in this volume discuss insights about language testing policy,
testing world languages, developing program-level language tests and
tests of specific language skills, and language assessment literacy. In
addition, this book identifies two needs in language testing for further
examination: the need for collaboration between language test
developers, language test users, and language users, and the need to
base language tests on real-world language use.