Language Testing Colloquium: Selected papers from a Colloquium at the Horwood Language Center, University of Melbourne, 24–25 August, 1987
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:2 (1988) vii, 98 pp.
Tim F. McNamara
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tim F. McNamara is involved.
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Australian Applied Language Studies
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:2 (1987) vi, 236 pp.
Volume 3
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 3] 1986. v, 135 pp.
2009 Language tests and social policy: A commentary Discourses on Language and Integration: Critical perspectives on language testing regimes in Europe, Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle, Clare Mar-Molinero and Patrick Stevenson (eds.), pp. 153–164 | Chapter
This chapter provides a commentary on the other contributions in the volume by relating
them to current dilemmas facing language testers working in policy areas involving
immigration and citizenship. It is argued that the overt construct of language tests for
citizenship (proficiency in… read more
2009 A Two-Edged Sword: Comparative Assessment Frameworks And Language Education Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 82, pp. 9–19 | Article
The last two decades have seen the growing use of assessment in the shaping of educational policy in relation to languages. The clearest examples of this in Europe and beyond are the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR: Council of Europe, 2001) and the OECD PISA program for… read more
2006 2. Validity and values: Inferences and generalizability in language testing Inference and Generalizability in Applied Linguistics: Multiple perspectives, Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline, Carol A. Chapelle and Patricia A. Duff (eds.), pp. 27–45 | Chapter
2003 Tearing us apart again: The paradigm wars and the search for validity EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 3 (2003), Foster-Cohen, Susan H. and Simona Pekarek Doehler (eds.), pp. 229–238 | Article
Language testing research is an increasingly divided field, as it responds to the paradigm shifts in broader applied linguistics research. One the one hand, language testing validation research places a fundamental emphasis on the generalisability of results and the appropriateness of inferences… read more
2001 The roots of applied linguistics in Australia Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 24:1, pp. 13–29 | Article
In this paper an attempt is made to identify the origins and distinctive character of Applied Linguistics in Australia, which differ significantly from those in the United States and the United Kingdom, where the field developed in the context of the English language education of international… read more
2001 The distinctiveness of Applied Linguistics in Australia: A historical perspective New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy: In honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky, Cooper, Robert L., Elana Shohamy and Joel Walters (eds.), pp. 261–269 | Article
1987 Language and social identity: Some Australian studies Australian Applied Language Studies, McNamara, Tim F. (ed.), pp. 33–58 | Article
The study of language attitudes and language maintenance and shift in intergroup settings has not always been related to an explicit model of the intergroup situation itself. Such a model is available in Tajfel’s Social Identity Theory. This paper explores the potential of the model for predicting… read more