The Writings of Lyle F. Bachman: Assuring that What We Count Counts in Languag [Hardcover]

Lyle F. Bachman has produced a high volume of scholarly articles and books in the field of language assessment. These writings have strongly influenced the discipline and over the last three decades have played an uncontested role in shaping the field.?This?is the first book to assemble Bachmans work into a single volume.

Support Material: Further Readings from Lyle F. Bachman

Series Editors' Preface

The L. F. Bachman Collection Project

by James Enos Purpura

Acknowledgments

Permissions

 

Introduction

Introducing L. F. Bachmans Milieu

by James Enos Purpura & Antony John Kunnan

 

Section 1: About L. F. Bachman

Article 1.1

Language Assessment: Its Development and FutureAn interview with Lyle F. Bachman

by Jing Chen (2011)

Article 1.2

A biographical sketch of Lyle Bachman

by Antony John Kunnan (2013)

 

Section 2:  Validation: Theory and Practice

Article 2.1

The construct validation of some components of communicative proficiency (with Adrian S. Palmer) (1982)

Article 2.2

A comparison of the abilities measured by the Cambridge and Educational Testing Service EFL test batteries (with Fred Davidson and John Foulkes) (1990)

Article 2.3

Constructing an assessmentlC8