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Contents Acknowledgements viii Series Editors note ix Abbreviations xiii 1 The 1950s and 1960s: the English Proficiency Test Battery 1 2 Communicative interlude: the story of ELTS 28 3 Retreat from revolution: 1981 87 53 4 The ELTS revision plan: 1987 89 74 5 The development of IELTS a pragmatic compromise 91 Appendices 1.1 Chronological overview of the history of academic English assessment and the development of ELTS/IELTS 117 2.1 English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB) British Council Information Leaflet 120 2.2 English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB) Short Version Form A, 1964 Part 1 and Part 2 123 2.3 English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB) Short Version Form A, 1964 Scoring Instructions 134 3.1 A Communication Needs Profile of Overseas Undergraduate Students in UK, 1977 136 3.2 Example of Content Specification and Item Analysis for the ELTS test M1 (Social Studies): Mark II Version 143 4.1 English Language Testing Service (ELTS) Specifications, 1978 144 4.2 Notes on the English Language Testing Service (ELTS), 1976 80 supplied by Brendan J Carroll, 18 August 2004 169 5.1 Notes to Registrars and Secretaries, 1979 171 6.1 ELTS Specimen Materials Booklet 175 6.2 Versions of ELTS, 1980 203 6.3 ELTS Administrators Manual, 1986 307 7.1 Introduction to ELTS Validation Report, 1(ii) by Hughes, Porter and Weir, 1988 325 8.1 English Language Battery (ELBA) 327 9.1 Test of English for Educational Purposes (TEEP) 337 10.1 ELTS Revision Specifications for M (Physical Science and Technology), 1989 355 11.1 Proposed Structure of IELTS Tests, 1989 361 12.1 An Introduction to IELTS, 1989 363 12.2 IELTS User Handbook, 1989 372 12.3 Versions of IELTS, 1989 381 Bibliography 448 Index 453
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
International English Language Testing System.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
English language -- Ability testing.