European Language Testing in a Global Context: Proceedings of the ALTE Barcelona Conference July 2001

by Corporate Author University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate

• ISBN13: 9780521535878
• ISBN10: 0521535875
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The ALTE conference, Euopean Language Testing in a Global Context, was held in Barcelona in 2001 in support of the European Year of Languages. The conference papers presented in ths volume represent a small subset of the many excellent presentations made at that event. They have been selected to provide a flavour of the issues that the conference addressed.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's note	vii
Section One Issues in Language Testing
1 The shape of things to come: will it be the normal distribution?	1	(26)
Charles Alderson
2 Test fairness	27	(24)
Antony Kunnan
Section Two Research Studies
3 Qualitative research methods in language test development and validation	51	(22)
Anne Lazaraton
4 European solutions to non-European problems	73	(20)
Vivien Berry and Jo Lewkowicz
5 Validating questionnaires to examine personal factors in L2 test performance	93	(24)
James E. Purpura
6 Legibility and the rating of second-language writing	117	(12)
Annie Brown
7 Modelling factors affecting oral language test performance: a large-scale empirical study	129	(14)
Barry O'Sullivan
8 Self-assessment in DIALANG. An account of test development	143	(14)
Sari Luoma
Section Three A European View
9 Council of Europe language policy and the promotion of plurilingualism	157	(16)
Joseph Sheils
10 Higher education and language policy in the European Union	173	(16)
Wolfgang Mackiewicz
Section Four Work in Progress
11 TestDaF: Theoretical basis and empirical research	189	(16)
Rüdiger Grotjahn
12 A Progetto Lingue 2000 Impact Study, with special reference to language testing and certification	205	(16)
Roger Hawkey
13 Distance-learning Spanish courses: a follow-up and assessment system	221	(16)
Silvia Maria Olalde Vegas and Olga Juan Lazáro
14 Certification of knowledge of the Catalan language and examiner training	237	(12)
Mònica Pereña and Lluis Ràfols
15 CNaVT: A more functional approach. Principles and construction of a profile-related examination system	249	(12)
Piet van Avermaet, José Bakx, Frans van der Slik and Philippe Vangeneugden
16 Language tests in Basque	261	(10)
Nicholas Gardner
17 Measuring and evaluating competence in Italian as a foreign language	271
Giuliana Grego Bolli