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ERIC Number: EJ313943
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1984
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Issues in the Testing of English for Specific Purposes.
Skehan, Peter
Language Testing, v1 n2 p202-20 Dec 1984
Looks at recent approaches to communicative language testing and to the testing of English for specific purposes (ESP). Contrasts two approaches to language testing research and discusses Oller's unitary competence hypothesis. Examines problems deriving from scoring procedures associated with ESP tests. (SED)
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Language Tests, Scoring, Second Language Learning, Test Validity, Testing
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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