Recent Trends in Language Testing : the Case of Testing Oral Language

Abstract

[Ed Note: This paper is reprinted from Language Laboratory, the journal of the Language Lab Association ofJapan, and is a revised version of the keynote address presented on July 31, 1990 at the 30th anniversary meeting of the Language Laboratory Association of Japan. A tenn as a Mellon Fellow at the National Foreign Language Center, Washington, D. C., during the spring of 1991, facilitated the reworking of the author's original remarks.]