European Language Testing in a Global

The ALTE conference, Euopean Language Testing in a Global Context, was held in Barcelona in 2001 in support of the European Year of Languages. The conference papers presented in ths volume represent a small subset of the many excellent presentations made at that event. They have been selected to provide a flavour of the issues that the conference addressed.

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Section One Issues in Language Testing

1 The shape of things to come: will it be the normal distribution?

1

(26)

Charles Alderson

2 Test fairness

27

(24)

Antony Kunnan

Section Two Research Studies

3 Qualitative research methods in language test development and validation

51

(22)

Anne Lazaraton

4 European solutions to non-European problems

73

(20)

Vivien Berry and Jo Lewkowicz

5 Validating questionnaires to examine personal factors in L2 test performance

93

(24)

James E. Purpura

6 Legibility and the rating of second-language writing

117

(12)

Annie Brown

7 Modelling factors affecting oral language test performance: a large-scale empirical study

129

(14)

Barry O'Sullivan

8 Self-assessment in DIALANG. An account of test development

143

(14)

Sari Luoma

Section Three A European View

9 Council of Europe language policy and the promotion of plurilingualism

157

(16)

Joseph Sheils

10 Higher education and language policy in the European Union

173

(16)

Wolfgang Mackiewicz

Section Four Work in Progress

11 TestDaF: Theoretical basis and empirical research

189

(16)

Rüdiger Grotjahn

12 A Progetto Lingue 2000 Impact Study, with special reference to language testing and certification

205

(16)

Roger Hawkey

13 Distance-learning Spanish courses: a follow-up and assessment system

221

(16)

Silvia Maria Olalde Vegas and Olga Juan Lazáro

14 Certification of knowledge of the Catalan language and examiner training

237

(12)

Mònica Pereña and Lluis Ràfols

15 CNaVT: A more functional approach. Principles and construction of a profile-related examination system

249

(12)

Piet van Avermaet, José Bakx, Frans van der Slik and Philippe Vangeneugden

16 Language tests in Basque

261

(10)

Nicholas Gardner

17 Measuring and evaluating competence in Italian as a foreign language

271

Giuliana Grego Bolli

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