Table of Contents

Contents: George M. Blue / James Milton / Jane Saville: Introduction: Assessing English for Academic Purposes - J. Charles Alderson: Testing in EAP: Progress? Achievement? Proficiency? - John Morley: The Chaplen Test Revisited - Paul Fanning / Lynne Hale: Screening New Students with the UCLES Computer Adaptive Test - Esther Daborn / Moira Calderwood: Collaborative Assessment of Written Reports: Electrical Engineering and EFL - Joan Cutting: Written Errors of International Students and English Native Speaker Students - Julie Hartill: Assessing Postgraduates in the Real World - Rita Green: Life after the Pre-Sessional Course: How Students Fare in their Departments - Lynn Errey: Stacking the Decks: What does it take to Satisfy Academic Readers' Requirements? - Gill Meldrum: I Know I have to be Critical, but How? - Katie Gray: Assessment in EAP: Moving away from Traditional Models - Alicia Cresswell: The Role of Portfolios in the Assessment of Student Writing on an EAP Course - M. I. Freeman: A Self-Evaluation Instrument for the Measurement of Student Proficiency Levels - George M. Blue: Self-Assessment and Defining Learners' Needs - Barbara Atherton: Developing Accuracy in Academic Writing - R. R. Jordan: Is the Customer Sometimes Right? Students' Views of Assessment in EAP.

About the Author

The Editors: George Blue works at the University of Southampton, where he teaches and co-ordinates EAP classes and teaches on the M.A. course in Applied Linguistics. James Milton is Director of the Centre for Applied Language Studies in the University of Swansea and a Founding Fellow of the British Institute of ELT. Jane Saville is a Senior Lecturer in the School of EFL and Linguistics at the University of the West of England, Bristol.