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Language Testing

The Social Dimension

By: Tim McNamara,Carsten Roever

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Language Testing

The Social Dimension

By: Tim McNamara,Carsten Roever

Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Award for Best Book on Language Testing 2009 This volume focuses on the social aspects of language testing, including assessment of socially situated language use and societal consequences of language tests. The authors argue that traditional approaches to ensuring social fairness in tests go some way to addressing social concerns, but a broader perspective is necessary to examine the functions of tests on a societal scale. Considers these issues in relation to language assessment in oral proficiency interviews, and to the assessment of second language pragmatics. Argues that traditional approaches to ensuring social fairness in tests go some way to addressing social concerns, but a broader perspective is necessary if we are to fully understand the social dimension of language assessment.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405155434

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Language and Subjectivity

By: Timothy Francis McNamara

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Language and Subjectivity

By: Timothy Francis McNamara

An incisive account of the relationship between language and identity, illuminating the role of language in racism, sexism, colonialism and similar social forces.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108475485

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Language Testing

By: Timothy Francis McNamara

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Language Testing

By: Timothy Francis McNamara

This book offers a succinct theoretical introduction to the basic concepts in language testing in a way that is easy to understand. In the Japanese context, this book is highly recommended for university faculty members involved in obtaining assessment literacy, teachers who want to validate their exploratory teaching and testing, or applied linguistics students new to the language testing field. The book is divided into four main sections. The first provides an overview of the principles of language testing. The next contains short extracts from the testing literature with questions which stimulate further thinking. Section 3 is a list of references with brief annotations and Section 4 a glossary of referenced testing terms.

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Oxford University Press

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0194372227

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Enduring Alliance

A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order

By: Timothy Andrews Sayle

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Enduring Alliance

A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order

By: Timothy Andrews Sayle

Sayle's book is a remarkably well-documented history of the NATO alliance. This is a worthwhile addition to the growing literature on NATO and a foundation for understanding its current challenges and prospects.― Choice Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy years after its inception, some consider its foundation uncertain and its structure weak. At this moment of incipient strategic crisis, Timothy A. Sayle offers a sweeping history of the most critical alliance in the post-World War II era. In Enduring Alliance, Sayle recounts how the western European powers, along with the United States and Canada, developed a treaty to prevent encroachments by the Soviet Union and to serve as a first defense in any future military conflict. As the growing and unruly hodgepodge of countries, councils, commands, and committees inflated NATO during the Cold War, Sayle shows that the work of executive leaders, high-level diplomats, and institutional functionaries within NATO kept the alliance alive and strong in the face of changing administrations, various crises, and the flux of geopolitical maneuverings. Resilience and flexibility have been the true hallmarks of NATO. As Enduring Alliance deftly shows, the history of NATO is organized around the balance of power, preponderant military forces, and plans for nuclear war. But it is also the history riven by generational change, the introduction of new approaches to conceiving international affairs, and the difficulty of diplomacy for democracies. As NATO celebrates its seventieth anniversary, the alliance once again faces challenges to its very existence even as it maintains its place firmly at the center of western hemisphere and global affairs.

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Cornell University Press

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1501735527

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Language and Subjectivity

By: Timothy Francis McNamara

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An incisive account of the relationship between language and identity, illuminating the role of language in racism, sexism, colonialism and similar social forces.

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Fairness, Justice, and Language Assessment

By: Tim McNamara,Ute Knoch,Jason Fan

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Fairness, Justice, and Language Assessment

By: Tim McNamara,Ute Knoch,Jason Fan

Home to the most innovative studies in its field, the Oxford Applied Linguistics series furthers research in English teaching and learning, and provides strong foundations for language pedagogy.The series attracts single or co-authored volumes from authors researching at the cutting edge of this dynamic field of interdisciplinary enquiry. The titles range from books that make such developments accessible to the non-specialist reader to those which explore in depth their relevance for theway language is to be conceived as a subject, and how courses and classroom activities are to be designed. As such, these books not only extend the field of applied linguistics itself and lend an additional significance to its enquiries, but also provide an indispensable professional foundation forlanguage pedagogy and its practice.The scope of the series includes:- second language acquisition- bilingualism and multi/plurilingualism- language pedagogy and teacher education- testing and assessment- language planning and policy- language internationalization- technology-mediated communication- discourse-, conversation-, and contrastive-analysis- pragmatics- stylistics- lexicography- translation

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0194017087

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Language and Subjectivity

Fairness, Justice, and Language Assessment

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