Full Description
Talking about Testing: Ten Years of LAQ Interviews 2016-2025 is a collection of a series of in-depth interviews of leading second language assessment researchers and scholars.
These interviews provide the background context for many of the important advancements in the field of L2 assessment and offer a unique understanding of the evolution of the field through the personal lens of influential experts, including Buzz Palmer, Antony Kunnan, John Read, Alister Cumming, Oryang Kwon, and others from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australasia. These interviews were published in the journal, Language Assessment Quarterly between 2016 and 2025.
Each interview explores career trajectories, research contributions, and perspectives on critical developments in language testing. A follow up to Talking About Language Assessment: The LAQ Interviews, published in 2015, this book is an essential resource for researchers and students interested in language and language teaching, applied linguistics, and TESOL.
Contents
Foreword Introduction 1. A Lifetime of Language Testing: An Interview with Adrian (Buzz) Palmer 2. Language Assessment: Critical Issues—An Interview with Antony John Kunnan 3. An Interview with Dr. John Read 4. The Interface of Teaching, Research, and Professional Service in Language Assessment: An Interview with James E. Purpura 5. "Follow Your Interests Because Those Will Motivate You to Excel": An Interview with Alister Cumming 6. A Life for English Language Education: An Interview with Oryang Kwon 7. Serendipitous: Lessons and Insights into Language Assessment from Catherine Elder 8. Advancing the International Recognition of the Locally-Produced GEPT: An Interview with Jessica Wu 9. At the Intersection of Language Testing Policy, Practice, and Research: An Interview with Yan Jin 10. Excellence is Not a Destination but a Journey! An Interview with Jacob Tharu 11. "Assessment Research for the Benefit of Humanity": An Interview with Randy Thrasher and Yoshinori Watanabe 12. Promoting Change in Language Teaching and Assessment at Policy and Practice Levels: An Interview with Hossein Farhady 13. Looking Back and Forward: Language Assessment Insights from Constant Leung 14. Washback into an Ecosystem of Teaching, Learning and Testing within Asia and Beyond: An Interview with Liying Cheng 15. An Interview with Timothy Francis McNamara 16. Twenty Years of Language Assessment Quarterly: An Interview with LAQ Founder Antony Kunnan 17. Talking and Thinking About Systems: An Interview with Nick Saville 18. From Global Dependence to Local Expertise: An Interview with Rama Mathew 19. At the Interface of Language Testing and Language Teaching: An Interview with Lianzhen He
