Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing

This book explores the basic considerations that underlie the practical development and usc of language tests: the nature of measurement, the contexts that determine the usc oflanguage tests, and the nature of both the language abilities to be measured and the testing methods that are used to measure them. It also serves as a synthesis of much of the research that hitherto has only been available in collections of readings. Students on teacher education courses and all those professionally involved in both the development and usc of language tests will find it an authoritative and illuminating complement to practical how to books. Lyle F. Bachman is Professor of Applied Lmr,uisticr ttl the Unil•ersity of California, Los Anxeler. Reviews of Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing: There is much of value in Bachmans book for practising teachers and students in TESOL courses. Liz Hamp-Lyons, TESOL Quarterly Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing is an extremely valuable addition to the literature on the measurement oflanguage skills. DanielL. Robertson, TESOLjoumal Oxford Unlver•lty Pren