Language Testing: A Question of Context

In this retrospective paper I advocate a renewed discussion of the social context of language testing. This involves investigating the claim that all language tests are tests of identity. Such a claim is based on the reconceptualization of identity as subjectivity within recent social theory. In the...

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1. Verfasser:	Tim McNamara
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Applied linguistics Applied philosophy Behavioral sciences Communications Discourse Economic disciplines Economics Education Educational methods Educational testing Educational tests Employment Epistemology Formal education Humanities instruction Identity Labor economics Language Language arts Language proficiency Language tests Linguistics Medical personnel Occupations Pedagogy Personality psychology Philosophy Psycholinguistics Psychology Rhetoric Social control Social engineering Social philosophy Social sciences Social theories Subjectivity World language instruction
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Zusammenfassung:	In this retrospective paper I advocate a renewed discussion of the social context of language testing. This involves investigating the claim that all language tests are tests of identity. Such a claim is based on the reconceptualization of identity as subjectivity within recent social theory. In the discussion, I will refer to the Occupational English Test (OET) (McNamara, 1996), an Australian test of second language proficiency for immigrant health professionals. The themes of the paper reflect the development of interests I had at the time I first attended the Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), in San Francisco in 1990. At