TESTING SPOKEN LANGUAGE

This is a practical guide to designing and using oral tests oflanguage ability. It is for teachers, testers, course designers andeducational planners. The organisation follows the sequence of stagesin which a new testing programme would logically be carried out. Ittakes the reader through the testing process, giving practicalexamples and discussing the issues involved at each stage. TestingSpoken Language removes testing from the realm of the specialist andpresents it as an integral part of a language learning programme. Itdescribes the range of test-types and discusses their suitability fordifferent aims and resources, lists over fifty oral test techniquesand variations, with comments on each, integrates the marking systeminto the process of test design, and provides suggestions formonitoring and improving a test once it is in use.