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Peer reviewedShohamy, Elana; Reves, Thea – Language Testing, 1985
Surveys the development of language tests toward authenticity and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of indirect and direct (authentic) language tests. Discusses the difficulty of applying appropriate psychometric measures to tests using real-life language, and the large number of tests variables which interfere with the authenticity of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Interviews, Language Tests, Language Usage
