What is it about?
Technology has transformed teaching and learning, and assessment has also been affected. This chapter presents the history and evolution of technology-enhanced assessment in language testing, from the introduction of computer-based testing in the mid-1980s to recent advances, and then focuses on Computer Assisted Language Testing (CALT) as a field.
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The chapter discusses the advantages and drawbacks of these approaches, presents the current state of the art and explores the future of technology-enhanced language testing based on existing practices and methodologies.
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Technology-enhanced language testing has been one of my research interests since the early stages of my career, and this chapter gave me the chance to look back at its development and forward to its future.
Dr. Miguel Fernández Álvarez
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
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This page is a summary of: Language testing in the digital era, March 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781315651729-17.
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