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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 22:17:57
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Sociopolitics of English Language Testing: Mirhosseini, De Costa (eds.)

 


Title: The Sociopolitics of English Language Testing 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/the-sociopolitics-of-english-language-testing-9781350071346/ 


Editor: Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini
Editor: Peter De Costa

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350071360 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350071353 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350071346 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

Highlighting marginalized but significant perspectives about the
sociopolitical essence of English language tests and testing processes
worldwide, this book explores the social considerations of testing theories
and practices from a critical perspective. Investigating concerns surrounding
power inequalities, "The Sociopolitics of English Language Testing" takes a
socially-situated view of language assessment, bringing sociopolitical
understandings of language teaching, learning, and assessment to the forefront
in the field.

Within the broader discussion of the politics of test use, an international
team of language and education experts address the issues of ideology,
diversity, power, and dominance in English language testing. Through
socially-sensitive theoretical as well as empirical discussion and
investigation of English language testing, this book offers valuable insights,
not only to applied linguists and the language education community who have
focused on positivistic and cognitively-oriented conceptions of language
testing, but to anyone who wishes to venture beyond the traditional bounds of
the field.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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