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TY - JOUR
T1 - Communicative language testing
T2 - current issues and future research
AU - Harding, Luke
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Language Assessment Quarterly on 21/05/2014, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15434303.2014.895829
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article discusses a range of current issues and future research possibilities in Communicative Language Testing (CLT) using, as its departure point, the key questions which emerged during the CLT symposium at the 2010 Language Testing Forum. The article begins with a summary of the 2010 symposium discussion in which three main issues related to CLT are identified: (a) the “mainstreaming” of CLT since 1980, (b) the difficulty for practitioners in utilising and operationalising models of communicative ability, and (c) the challenge of theorising a sufficiently rich communicative construct. These issues are each discussed and elaborated in turn, with the conclusion drawn that, whereas the communicative approach lies dormant in many test constructs, there is scope for a reinvigorated communicative approach that focuses on “adaptability.” A number of future research directions with adaptability at the forefront are proposed.
AB - This article discusses a range of current issues and future research possibilities in Communicative Language Testing (CLT) using, as its departure point, the key questions which emerged during the CLT symposium at the 2010 Language Testing Forum. The article begins with a summary of the 2010 symposium discussion in which three main issues related to CLT are identified: (a) the “mainstreaming” of CLT since 1980, (b) the difficulty for practitioners in utilising and operationalising models of communicative ability, and (c) the challenge of theorising a sufficiently rich communicative construct. These issues are each discussed and elaborated in turn, with the conclusion drawn that, whereas the communicative approach lies dormant in many test constructs, there is scope for a reinvigorated communicative approach that focuses on “adaptability.” A number of future research directions with adaptability at the forefront are proposed.
KW - communicative
KW - language testing
KW - language assessment
U2 - 10.1080/15434303.2014.895829
DO - 10.1080/15434303.2014.895829
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
SP - 186
EP - 197
JO - Language Assessment Quarterly
JF - Language Assessment Quarterly
SN - 1543-4303
IS - 2
ER -