This course is designed to give the prospective ESL teacher experience with various types of
language tests.  Class time is spent discussing methods of testing language proficiency.  The
class develops a langauge testing instrument which is then administered to ESL students and
subsequently analyzed.  The course requires class participation, writing test items, outside article
summaries, and a final project.  The final project is an analysis of a language test based on
students' performances on that test.

TEXTS: Alderson, Clapham & Wall: Language Test Construction and Evaluation, Cambridge
University Press.  Cohen: Assessing Language Ability in the Classroom, Heinle & Heinle.
Harris: Testing English as a Second Language, McGraw Hill.