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TESTING THE SPOKEN ENGLISH OF YOUNG NORWEGIANS: A STUDY OF TEST VALIDITY AND THE ROLE OF ‘SMALLWORDS’ IN CONTRIBUTING TO PUPILS' FLUENCY, Angela Hasselgreen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2007

April Ginther
April Ginther
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Purdue University
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TESTING THE SPOKEN ENGLISH OF YOUNG NORWEGIANS: A STUDY OF TEST VALIDITY AND THE ROLE OF ‘SMALLWORDS’ IN CONTRIBUTING TO PUPILS' FLUENCY.Angela Hasselgreen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. v + 304. $36.00 paper.

This volume is an impressive demonstration of what is suggested by language testers' and teachers' discussions of test validity but is seldom undertaken. Hasselgreen's book represents a monumental and painstaking study that began with the pilot of the speaking portion of the evaluation of English as a school subject (EVA) in the spring of 1995 and, we can assume, has continued even after the publication of this book in 2004.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 486 - 488
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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