Rethinking the Second Language Listening Test: From Theory to Practice

by John Field

Book Overview

Rethinking the Second Language Listening Test argues that the key to more valid testing of second language listening lies in a better understanding of the nature of the skill and of the signal that listeners have to decode. Using this information as a point of departure, it takes a critical look at many of the myths and conventions behind listening tests and provides practical suggestions as to the ways in which they might be rethought.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781797145
• ISBN13: 9781781797143
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"