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Textbook Trends in Teaching Language Testing
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Davies, Alan – Language Testing, 2008
The article examines changes in language testing textbooks in English since Lado (1961) and proposes that two trends may be discerned. The first shows how the growing professionalism of the field has required an expansion in teaching materials to meet the need for new training programmes. What the expansion also shows is the desire, again a mark…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Language of Instruction, Testing