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People and Events in Language Testing--A Sort of Memoir. An Interview with Bernard Spolsky
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Saville, Nick; Kunnan, Antony – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
This interview took place at the Language Testing Research Colloquium in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (at the Chateau Laurier Hotel on July 21, 2005), at which Professor Bernard Spolsky was presented with the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate/International Language Testing Association Lifetime Achievement Award. The conference…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Professional Recognition, Awards
Performance Tasks: An Assessment Technique Used at TOSTP.
Galway, Janis; Whittington, Andrew – TESL Talk, 1984
Discusses evolution of task performance assessment technique of the Toronto Office Skills Training Project (TOSTP), a 45-week training program for women from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Training in office skills, language, and life skills is uniquely integrated in a program designed to enable the women to overcome the obstacles of language…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Females, Foreign Countries
Teaching and Testing Communicatively.
Swaine, Merrill – TESL Talk, 1984
Discusses the development of a communicative language testing unit for grade nine French immersion students. The interlocking of teaching and testing is suggested, by preparing a potential testing unit for every communicative, theme-oriented curriculum teaching unit, thus aiming toward goals compatible with both teacher and student. (SL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, French, High Schools