Talking About Language Assessment: The LAQ Interviews

Antony John Kunnan is Professor of English at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the editor of The Companion to Language Assessment (2014), the founding Editor of the journal Language Assessment Quarterly (2003-13), as well as Past President of the International Language Testing Association.

• Introduction and Overview by Antony John Kunnan and Nick Saville 1. The Story Behind the Modern Language Aptitude Test: An Interview with John B. Carroll (1916-2003) by Charles W. Stansfield & Daniel J. Reed 2. Biasing for the Best in Language Testing and Learning: An Interview with Merrill Swain by Janna Fox 3. 40 Years in Applied Linguistics: An Interview with Alan Davies by Antony John Kunnan 4. An Interview with John Trim at 80 5. People and Events in Language Testing: A Sort of Memoir. An Interview with Bernard Spolsky by Nick Saville & Antony John Kunnann 6. An Interview with Professor Kenji Ohtomo: The Founding Father of Language Testing in Japan by Miyoko Kobayashi & Masashi Negishi 7. A Life in Language Testing: An Interview with Charles Stansfield by Daniel J. Reed & Melissa Bowles 8. From Cloze to Consequences and Beyond: An Interview with Elana Shohamy by Anne Lazaraton 9. Gui Shichuan: Founding Father of Language Testing in China. An interview by He Lianzhen & Qi Luxia 10. Language Assessment: Its Development and Future - An Interview with Lyle F. Bachman by Jing Chen 11. A lifetime of language testing: An interview with J. Charles Alderson by Tineke Brunfaut 12. Liz Hamp-Lyons: An interview by Jin Yan