Journal Screenshot

International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development

Open Access Journal

ISSN: 2226-6348

An Account of Approaches to Language Testing

Ahmed Mohammed S. Alduais

Open access

You design your test, I design my test and every teacher else designs his/her own test in the way he/she likes it ignoring the fact that our tests should be based on certain characteristics. This argument, however, includes issues such as what to test, how to test and on what bases you design a test: have been all discussed in this paper with the help of accounting briefly for four approaches to language testing. Thus, the four approaches (translation approach, psychometric-structuralists approach, integrative approach and communicative approach) have been accounted for comparatively and contrastively.

Bachman, L. F. (1990). Fundemental Consderations in Language Testing . Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Bachman, L. F., & Palmer, A. S. (1996). Language Testing in Practice . Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Cheng, L., Watanabe, Y., & Curtis, A. (Ed.). (2004). WASHBACK IN LANGUAGE TESTING: Research Contexts and Methods. Mahwah, New Jersey London, LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS.
Heaton, J. B. (1990). Longman Handbooks for Language Teachers: Writing English Language Tests (New ed.). London and New York: Longman Group UK Ltd.
Hinkel, E. (Ed.). (2005). Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning. Mahwah, New Jersey and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoicates, Publishers .
Hughes, A. (1989). Testing for Language Teachers . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Madsen, H. S. (1983). Techinques in Testing . Oxford : Oxford University Press.
McNamara, T. (2000). Oxford Introductions to Language Study: Language Testing. (H. G. Widdowson, Ed.) Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Weir, C. J. (2005). Language Testing and Validation: An Evidence-based Approach. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN.

In-Text Citation: (Alduais, 2012)
To Cite this Article: Alduais, A. M. S. (2012). An Account of Approaches to Language Testing. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 1(4), 1–6.