Language Testing: The Social DimensionISBN: 978-1-4051-5543-4
Paperback
320 pages
November 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Tim McNamara is Professor of Applied Linguistics at The
University of Melbourne, where he gained his Ph.D. in Applied
Linguistics, and where he helped establish the Language Testing
Research Centre, of which he was subsequently Director. His
research interests include language testing, language teaching, and
language and identity. His recent work has focused on the relevance
of contemporary social theory to concerns in language assessment
and other areas of applied linguistics, including the role of
language tests in the processing of the claims of asylum seekers
and in citizenship procedures. He is the author of Language
Testing (2000) and has published widely in applied linguistics
journals.
Carsten Roever is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. He has a Ph.D. in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. His main research interest is the assessment of second language pragmatics. Some of his favorite topics are acquisition of pragmatic knowledge, second language aptitude, web-based language testing, and research design. He has published in Language Testing, Language Learning & Technology, and various edited collections.