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Language for Specific Purposes: Current and Future Issues
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Brunfaut, Tineke – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
This article presents a number of issues on the topic of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) testing that were raised during a plenary discussion at the 30th annual Language Testing Forum. The comments particularly focused on (a) past and current conceptualizations and categorizations of LSP tests, (b) tensions between specificity and…
Descriptors: Languages for Special Purposes, Language Tests, Test Construction, Language Proficiency