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"The Road Not Taken" in Language Testing: Sociocultural Implications of Test and Teaching Contents
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Noori, Mahdieh – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Shifting focus of asocial language tests toward social considerations recalls their ideological basis (Mirhosseini, De Costa, 2020). The recurrent exposure to and involvement in discursive constructions of high stakes' contents, may bring along certain sociocultural conceptualizations and values by test audiences (van Dijk, 1998). Thus, unless a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Test Content
Testing Language, but What?: Examining the Carrier Content of IELTS Preparation Materials from a Critical Perspective
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Noori, Mahdieh; Mirhosseini, Seyyed-Abdolhamid – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
The implicit sociocultural functioning of the "content" of high-stakes English language proficiency tests is a rarely-explored concern in language assessment. This study attempts to bring critical views of language testing and critical discourse studies together to examine the content of IELTS preparation materials in search of topics…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, High Stakes Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests