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Operationalizing Uncertainty in Language Testing: An Argument in Favour of Content Validity.
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Davies, Alan – Language Testing, 1988
Discusses the elusiveness of precision in language testing in relation to three major issues of linguistic analysis: 1) universality; 2) combining power; and 3) incorporation of extra language data. The results of a recent English Language Testing Service (ELTS) Test support this relationship. Language testing should accept the centrality of…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Content Validity, Language Tests, Linguistic Theory