Language Assessment: Now And Then

Authors : PINAR UYANIKER

Pages : 1-20

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Publication Date : 2017-10-15

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :``As ye teach, so shall ye test.''  Underhill (1982, p. 18) This article is a historical overview of English language testing. It starts with a history of testing and offers a discussion of changing trends that have occurred during the last 25 years starting from communicative language testing to learner oriented language testing. In this article, changing trends in psychometric principles will also be discussed in-depth. 
Keywords : language assessment, history