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NEW BOOK FOR 2025
The 2nd edition of Practical Language Testing will be published by Routledge in early 2025. The chapters are widely edited and brought up to date from the first edition of 2010, with a stronger focus on test building and validation. To achieve this there is a new chapter on validity from traditional formulations through Messick, the post-Messick fragmentation, and reintegration through effect-driven testing.

This is the only language testing textbook that is based on research into language assessment literacy and a clear pedagogic model. The first stage of the research, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, was a definition of what we need to know as practitioners to design and build tests. Read this research here:

Fulcher, G. (2012). Assessment literacy for the language classroom. Language Assessment Quarterly 9, 2, 113 - 132.

The structure was then turned into an approach to pedagogy based on the pre-Aristotelean notion of apprenticeship, which combines practice and theory in the act of creation. You can read about this model, which informs the approach to learning in the book here:

Fulcher, G.(2020). Operationalizing Assessment Literacy. In Tsagari, D. (Ed.) Language Assessment Literacy: From Theory to Practice (pp. 8 -28). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.

The book looks at both high-stakes and classroom oriented assessment. I argue that that these are different paradigms, with very different validity criteria. You may read about the outline of this theory that informs the structure and content of chapters 2 and 3 here:

Fulcher, G. (2021). Language Assessment Literacy in a Learning-Oriented Assessment Framework. In Gebril, A. (Ed.) Learning-oriented language assessment: Putting theory into practice. London and New York: Routledge.

This website was built using Flash, which has now been discontinued. I have therefore transferred all videos and podcasts my YouTube Channel.

April 2024: Interested in context in language testing? My feature analysis has just been updated, with additional downloadable content.


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