Language testers like all other social scientists have been led to commit this. The advantages and disadvantages of using qualitative and quantitative approaches and methods in language testing and assessment research. For the purpose of this chapter, philosophy will be seen as the study. Reexamining language testing language testing resources. Firstly, constructs in language testing are dependent upon social processes. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. The discussion is framed within the philosophical and social beliefs that have forged the practices endemic in language education and policy today. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. Reexamining language testing explores ideas that form the foundations of language testing and assessment. A philosophical and social inquiry, by glenn fulcher. Fulchers philosophical approach to language testing as a profession is both. Professor of applied linguistics and language assessment. Reexamining language testing a philosophical and social inquiry glenn fulcher, university of leicester, uk reexamining language testing explores the philosophy and ethics that form the foundation of language assessment today.
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