From mythical ‘standard’ to standard reality: The need for alternatives to standardized English language tests

• Published in: Language teaching Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 86 - 110
• Main Authors: Jenkins, Jennifer, Leung, Constant
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Alternative Assessment; Communication; Communication (Thought Transfer); Conference Papers; Dialect Studies; Education; Empowerment; English; English (Second Language); English language; First Person Singular; Individual Testing; Language assessment; Language Tests; Language Usage; Language Variation; Listening Comprehension Tests; Monolingualism; Multilingualism; Native Speakers; Position Papers; Psychological Testing; Psychometrics; R&D; Research & development; Social sciences; Standardized Tests; Validity; United Kingdom > UK

This position paper builds on three of our earlier publications on the same subject (Jenkins & Leung 2014; Leung, Lewkowicz & Jenkins 2016; Jenkins & Leung 2017), as well as a number of conference papers we have given both jointly and individually. However, what we have not done up to th...