28.2995, Books: Assessing English on the Global Stage: Weir, O'Sullivan

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:16:41
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Assessing English on the Global Stage: Weir, O'Sullivan

 


Title: Assessing English on the Global Stage 
Subtitle: The British Council and English Language Testing, 1941-2016 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/assessing-english-on-the-global-stage/ 


Author: Cyril J. Weir
Author: Barry O'Sullivan

Hardback: ISBN:  9781781794913 Pages: 392 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: £85
Paperback: ISBN:  9781781794920 Pages: 392 Price: U.S. $ 45 Comment: £36.95


Abstract:

This book tells the story of the British Council’s seventy-five year
involvement in the field of English language testing from its founding in
1934. It explores the role of the British Council in spreading British
influence around the world through the export of British English language
examinations and British expertise in language testing. It relates how in the
early 1990s the focus of the organisation changed from test development to
delivery of British examinations through its global network. However, with the
founding of the Assessment Research Group in early 2012 closely followed by
the introduction of the Aptis English language testing service (the first
major test developed in-house for over thirty years) recent years have seen a
clear return by the British Council to the original raison d’etre of the
organisation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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