Full Description
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in evaluating languages for specific purposes (LSP).
Contents
1. Why Test Language for Specific Purposes?; 2. Specific Purpose Language Ability; 3. Context, Discourse Domains, and Task Characteristics; 4. Strategic competence: Between knowledge and context; 5. From Target Language Use to Test Tasks; 6. Specific Purpose Tests of Listening and Speaking; 7. Specific Purpose Tests of Reading and Writing; 8. LSP Test Development and Technology.