Fulcher, G. 2010. Practical Language Testing. London: Hodder Education.
      ISBN: 987-0340984482
      Summary: Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge, and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests.
      Entered by: University of Leicester (English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, School of Education)
      Dörnyei, Z. 2010. Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and Processing. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
      ISBN: 978-0-8058-3909-8
      Summary: The purpose of this book is to help researchers to increase the efficiency of their questionnaires and to avoid possible pitfalls. Illustrated by concrete examples, the book offers a thorough but accessible overview of the theory of questionnaire design, and administration and processing, with a special view on SLA applications.
      Entered by: University of Nottingham (School of English Studies)
      Cook, G. 2010. Translation in Language Teaching: An Argument for Reassessment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
      ISBN: 978 0 19 442475 2
      Summary: A survey and critical assessment of arguments for and against translation in different teaching contexts. The book presents translation as: an aid to language acquisition, pedagogy, and testing; a contribution to student needs, rights, and empowerment; an educational insight into relationships between languages and cultures.
      Entered by: The Open University (Faculty of Education and Languages)
      Schmitt, N. 2010. Researching Vocabulary: A Vocabulary Research Manual. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
      ISBN: 978-1-4039-8536-1
      Summary: Researching Vocabulary is written for researchers who want to carry out valid and reliable studies on first and second language vocabulary. Practical advice is given on a wide variety of research methodologies. It includes a Resources section which outlines the lexical tests, corpora, software, internet sites, and other available resources.
      Entered by: University of Nottingham (School of English Studies)
      Kiely, R. 2010. ‘L1 and L2 in the CLIL classroom’ in CLIL und Immersion: Erfolgsbedingungen für fremdsprachlichen Sachfachunterricht in der Grundschule. Braunschweig: Westermann Verlag, pp. 88-99
      Book editor(s): Massler, U. and P. Burmeister.
      ISBN: 978-3-14-162133-4
      Summary: A book chapter based on the findings of the PRO-CLIL programme evaluation.
      Country of research: various
      Learners' background: various
      Institutional level: primary
      Entered by: University College Plymouth St Mark & St John (Department of International Education)
      Spiro, J. 2010. ‘Crossing the bridge from appreciative reader to reflective writer: the assessment of creative process’ in Testing the Untestable in Language Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 165-190
      Book editor(s): Paran, A. and L. Sercu.
      ISBN: 978-1-84769-266-5
      Summary: The chapter explores the way in which the creative writing component of a language/literature programme was assessed, and provides comparisons of how first language and second language students responded to the process. In so doing, it examines the way students can be guided from reading more sensitively to writing more fluently.
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: various
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: Oxford Brookes University (Westminster Institute of Education)
      Harsch, C. and J. Hartig. 2010. ‘Empirische und inhaltliche Analyse lokaler Abhängigkeiten im C-Test [Empirical and content analysis of local dependencies in the C-test]’ in Der C-Test: Beiträge aus der aktuellen Forschung/The C-Test: Contributions from Current Research. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, pp. 193-204
      Book editor(s): Grotjahn, R.
      ISBN: 978-3-631-60438-0
      Country of research: Germany
      Learners' background: Germany
      Institutional level: secondary
      Entered by: University of Warwick (Centre for Applied Linguistics)
      Milton, J. 2010. ‘The development of vocabulary breadth across the CEFR levels’ in Second Language Acquisition and Testing in Europe. Online: Eurosla, pp. 211-232
      Book editor(s): Bartning, I., M. Martin and I. Vedder.
      URL: http://eurosla.org/monographs/EM01/EM01home.html
      ISBN: 978-1-84769-289-4
      Summary: This chapter links vocabulary sizes in EFL to the 6 CEFR levels and provides a justification as to why these vocabulary sizes are relatively fixed in relation to language level.
      Country of research: various
      Learners' background: various
      Entered by: Swansea University (Department of Applied Linguistics)
      Hulstijn, J.H., J.C. Alderson and R. Schoonen. 2010. ‘Developmental stages in second-language acquisition and levels of second-language proficiency. Are there links between them?’ in Communicative Proficiency and Linguistic Development. Rome: EUROSLA Monographs, pp. 11-20
      Book editor(s): Bartning, I., M. Martin and I. Vedder.
      URL: http://eurosla.org/monographs/EM01/11-20Hulstijjn_et_al.pdf
      ISBN: 978-1-4466-6993-8
      Entered by: Lancaster University (Linguistics and English Language)
      Paran, A. 2010. ‘Between Scylla and Charybdis: the dilemmas of testing language and literature’ in Testing the Untestable in Language Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 143-165
      Book editor(s): Paran, A. and L. Sercu.
      ISBN: 978-1-84769-266-5
      Summary: This chapter examines the issues involved in testing literature in the language learning classroom. It elaborates the principles for testing and assessment in this fields and provides concrete testing tasks exemplifying these principles.
      Entered by: Institute of Education, London (Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication)