New Challenges for Language Testing

María Luisa Carrió-Pastor is a Senior Lecturer of English Language at Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, where she is the Head of the Applied Linguistics Department and the Director of the PhD programme Languages, Literatures, Cultures and their Applications. Her research areas are corpus linguistics, pragmatics and the study of academic and professional discourse for second language acquisition.

'This edited volume provides new insight into test development and accreditation in foreign-language assessment. Aspects such as testing strategies and student motivation are also discussed in relation to the main theme. [...] [T]he volume makes a strong contribution to the important discussion of how best to assess language proficiency, which is of great interest to the field. The authors have definitely succeeded in fulfilling the aim of exploring 'new ways of testing and implementing assessment' (p. vii). The volume covers descriptions of an impressive number of new and innovative tests and methods, along with more general discussions of testing and accreditation. It will no doubt be of interest to universities, policymakers and individual researchers. With its predominantly empirical basis, the book furthermore has practical uses, for example for foreign-language teaching practitioners.'Tove LarssonUppsala UniversityStudia Neophilologica, 89: 2 (2017)