Assessing Academic English Language Proficiency: 40+ years of U.K. Language Tests

Assessing Academic English Language Proficiency: 40+ years of U.K. Language Tests

In this paper we trace the development of academic English language proficiency testing in the U.K. since the 1950s, paying particular attention to three tests, the English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB, 1964), the English Language Testing Service test (ELTS, 1980) and the International English Lan...

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1. Verfasser: Alan Davies
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Sprache:eng
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Academic accomplishments
Academic achievement
Academic degrees
Academic education
Academic testing
Applied linguistics
Communication skills
Communications
Education
Educational institutions
Educational methods
Educational research
Formal education
Higher education
Humanities instruction
Language
Language arts
Language proficiency
Language skills
Linguistics
Literacy
Nonnative languages
Pedagogy
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Reading
Reading comprehension
Reading instruction
Schools
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Universities
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Zusammenfassung:In this paper we trace the development of academic English language proficiency testing in the U.K. since the 1950s, paying particular attention to three tests, the English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB, 1964), the English Language Testing Service test (ELTS, 1980) and the International English Language Testing System (IELTS, 1989). It is suggested that these tests embody changing views (or paradigms) of language. We explain these changes as showing, first, a strong influence of the communicative competence construct in the move from EPTB to ELTS and, as doubts about the meaning and use of communicative competence grew, a fall back towards