Interfaces between second language acquisition and language testing research

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The volume includes original papers addressing different aspects of the interface between second language acquisition and language testing research. This hardback edition provides a fresh look at areas of common interest to both SLA and LT research, and ways in which research in these two areas of applied linguistics can be fruitfully integrated. The volume includes original papers dealing with different aspects of the interface between SLA and LT research. This collection thus constitutes a starting point for a continuing and expanding dialogue between SLA and LT researchers.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Language testing SLA interfaces: An update
• 2 Construct definition and validity inquiry in SLA research
• 3 Research in interlanguage variation: Implications for language testing
• 4 Strategies and processes in test-taking and SLA
• 5 Describing language development? Rating scales and SLA
• 6 Testing methods in context-based second language research
• 7 How can language testing and SLA benefit from the other? The case of discourse
• Appendix
• Index