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29 - English Language and Literature
University of Bedfordshire
Examining Reading: Research and Practice in Assessing Second Language Reading (Studies in Language Testing)
Provides an innovative, comprehensive, theoretical framework for reading test validation, which is then systematically applied to multiple versions of a suite of international high stakes English language tests. It shows where the tests are valid across an extensive range of criterial parameters. Weir was the sole author of Chapters 3-7 and co-authored Chapters 1,2 and 8 and the appendices. Deville's review in the Modern Language Journal 2011, 95/2: 334-335 states: "... In summary, this volume represents an important contribution to the field in terms of both theory and practice”. It was runner up in the 2012 Sage/ILTA triennial award for books on language testing.