Measured words / Bernard Spolsky
By: Spolsky, Bernard
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Series: Oxford applied linguistics.Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995 Description: 402 p.ISBN: 0-19-437201-4.Subject(s): Lenguaje y lenguas | Ingles -- linguistica aplicada| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Biblioteca Idiomas - Neiva | FONDO BIBL | 8004 | 1 | Available | 8800000322 |
PART ONE : The history of the objective language test
1. The encroaching power of examinations
2. The new-type language test : 1913-1935
3. Spreading the psychometric hegemony
4. New technological and consumer protection
5. Language testing goes to war : 1940-1945
6. Prognostication and aptitude : 1925-1960
7. Language testing in the national interest
8. Testing goes professional
9. Language testing triumphant : 1945-1965
PART TWO : TOEFL and the rise of the transatlantic English testing industry
11. English tests for foreigners : 1945-1960
12. The ides of TOEFL
13. TOEFL : gestation
14. The birth of TOEFL
15. Action inthe boardrooms
16. TOEFL in action
17. Dividing up the pot
18. The English testing industry
19. The Cambridge-Princeton test race
20. Jubilee: an envoi
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