Book review: Testing the Untestable in Language Education

[...]despite the title, the book is more of a call to arms than a blueprint for how these skills might be tested. In the final chapter in Part 1, Liddicoat and Scarino present two case studies focusing on the elicitation of intercultural behaviours in language teaching and learning situations. [...]...

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Published in:Language Testing 2013, Vol.30 (4), p.557-560
Main Author: Curtis, Andy
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Classrooms
Education
Language
Language Proficiency
Language Skills
Language tests
Learning Processes
Literature
Researchers
Students
Teaching
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Summary:[...]despite the title, the book is more of a call to arms than a blueprint for how these skills might be tested. In the final chapter in Part 1, Liddicoat and Scarino present two case studies focusing on the elicitation of intercultural behaviours in language teaching and learning situations. [...]he also notes that a number of test methods have gone unexplored in this project and there is a need to include more distinct elicitation procedures (e.g. fill-inthe-blanks, matching, sentence completion, multiple-choice, short essay) that can tap the learners capacity to handle responses to literary texts (p. 208). [...]most language testers would probably not consider this to be a book on language testing, in the traditional sense, or even a book on testing given the acknowledgement by most authors of the impossibility of using formal testing methods.
ISSN:0265-5322
1477-0946
DOI:10.1177/0265532212475126