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Download full textFulcher, Glenn; Panahi, Ali; Mohebbi, Hassan – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
The present systematic review examines Glenn Fulcher's contributions, works, philosophy, and research in language testing and assessment. The data includes his published articles, book chapters, books and interviews (except the one in this special issue) relevant to language testing and assessment from 1987 to March 2022. This study is conducted…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Language Research, Oral Language
Peer reviewedFulcher, Glenn – System, 2000
Discusses the phenomenon of communicative language testing as it emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a reaction against tests constructed of multiple choice items and the perceived overemphasis of reliability. Traces the legacy of the communicative movement from its first formulation, through present conundrums, to tomorrow's research…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Research, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedFulcher, Glenn; Reiter, Rosina Marquez – Language Testing, 2003
Reviews assumptions underlying approaches to research into speaking task difficulty and questions the view that test scores always vary with task conditions or discourse variation. Offers a new approach to defining task difficulty in terms of the interaction between pragmatic task features and first language cultural background. Results of a study…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Difficulty Level, Language Tests, Oral Language
Peer reviewedFulcher, Glenn – Language Testing, 2003
Describes a three-phase process model for interface design, drawing on practices developed in the software industry and adapting them for computer-based languages tests. Describes good practice in initial design, emphasizes the importance of usability testing, and argues that only through following a principled approach to interface design can the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Language Tests, Models
Peer reviewedFulcher, Glenn; Bamford, Ron – System, 1996
Examines standards in language testing, in the context of the legal framework of the United States and the United Kingdom. The article argues that research into test reliability and validity by testing bodies in the United States has a legal basis and examines areas in which examination boards offering English as a foreign language tests in…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Court Litigation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFulcher, Glenn – Applied Linguistics, 1999
Testing and assessment in English-for-Academic-purposes (EAP) contexts has traditionally been carried out as a needs analysis of learners or a content analysis of courses. This article reassesses this approach to the development and validation of EAP tests on the basis of a theoretical model and recent research into content specificity. (VWL)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Content Validity, English for Academic Purposes, Language Research
