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Language Testing: The Social Dimension

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5543-4
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320 pages
April 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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1. Introduction.

2. Validity and the social dimension of language testing.

3. The social dimension of proficiency: How testable is it?.

4. Psychometric approaches to fairness: Bias and DIF.

5. Fairness reviews and codes of ethics.

6. Language tests and social identity.

7. Language assessments at school: Social values and policy.

8. Where to from here? Implications for research and training

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