Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline. Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers’ techniques of analysis through practical application. Section B, Extension, brings together influential articles, sets them in context, and discusses their contribution to the field. Section C, Exploration, builds on knowledge gained in the first two sections, setting thoughtful tasks around further illustrative material. This enables readers to engage more actively with the subject matter and encourages them to develop their own research responses. Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader’s understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions. Language Testing and Assessment: introduces students to the key methods and debates surrounding language testing and assessment explores the testing of linguistic competence of children, students, asylum seekers and many others in context of the uses to which such research can be put presents influential and seminal readings in testing and assessment by names such as Michael Canale and Merrill Swain, Michael Kane, Alan Davies, Lee Cronbach and Paul Meehl, and Pamela Moss. The accompanying webite to this book can be found at http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415339476/ 

Section A: Introduction Unit 1: Introducing Validity Unit 2: Classroom Assessment Unit 3: Constructs and Models Unit 4; Test Specifications and Designs Unit 5: Writing Items and Tasks Unit 6: Prototypes, Prototyping and Field Tests Unit 7: Scoring Language Tests and Assessments Unit 8: Administration and Training Unit 9: Fairness, Ethics and Standards Unit 10: Arguments and Evidence in Test Validation and Use Section B: Expansion Unit 1: Construct Validity Unit 2: Pedagogic Assessment Unit 3: Investigating Communicative Competence Unit 4: Optimal Specification Design Unit 5: Washback Unit 6: Researching Prototype Tasks Unit 7: Scoring Performance Tests Unit 8: Interlocutor Training and Behaviour Unit 9: Ethics and Professionalism Unit 10: Validity as Argument Section C: Exploration Unit 1: Validity ?An Exploration Unit 2: Assessment in School Systems Unit 3: What Do Items Really Test? Unit 4: Evolution in Action Unit 5: To See a Test in a Grain of Sand Unit 6: Analyzing Items and Tasks Unit 7: Designing an Alternative Matrix Unit 8: Administration and Alignment Unit 9: In a Time Far Far Away Unit 10: To Boldly Go. Glossary. References. Index

Glen Fulcher I am currently Reader in Education (Applied Linguistics & Language Testing) at the University of Leicester. Previously, I taught English as a Second Language in Cyprus, Greece and the Gulf. Before coming to Leicester I also taught at the Universities of Surrey and Dundee. My main interests lie in the field of language testing and educational assessment. To discover more about language testing, you can visit my website at http://languagetesting.info. Here I maintain resources on the subject which complement the content of my books. I have extensive experience of working on test design and development projects, including the design and creation of test specifications, item/task design and prototyping, item/task review procedures, pre-testing, test analysis and assembly, and the design of both paper and computer delivery systems. I have a particular expertise in the design and development of rating instruments for performance assessments, particularly those in the assessment of speaking and communication. I have also published many research papers in journals such as Language Testing, Applied Linguistics, System and Language Assessment Quarterly and Educational Theory and Philosophy. I also write on the philosophical, ethical and legal aspects of language testing and assessment, including test mandates, political agendas, and legal cases involving test use and interpretation. The research for the book Practical Language Testing was supported by a generous Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. Professionally, I have served on the boards of many organizations, such as the International Language Testing Organization (ILTA), of which I was President in 2006. I am also currently the co-editor of the journal Language Testing (Sage).

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