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This book is a useful and timely contribution to the relatively sparse literature on listening test design. Field draws together various elements of his recent empirical and theoretical work to present to the reader his well-known listening process model, and to elaborate on the implications of this model for listening test design. This book will provide a welcome bridge between the more scholarly aspects of Field's work, and the very practical needs of those working in test development, whether in testing organisations or in the language classroom. Dr. Luke Harding, Dept of Applied Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University

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John Field is Reader in Cognitive Approaches to Language Learning at the CRELLA Research Institute, University of Bedfordshire. He previously taught at the University of Reading, UK. He has a long-term interest in second language listening, on which he has written and researched widely; his Listening in the Language Classroom (CUP, 2008) has become a standard work in the field. His thinking is very much formed by his background in psycholinguistics, on which he has published a reference work. He has given consultancy advice on the testing of listening to several international test providers; and has fostered a new area of study evaluating the extent to which tests of second language skills elicit the kind of processes that candidates use in the real world. Recent research projects include advising on listening standards in Rwandan schools and investigating the effects of double play upon scores and candidate behaviour in listening tests. In an earlier life, John was an ELT teacher trainer, schools inspector and materials writer. Besides listening materials, he wrote national coursebooks for Saudi Arabia, radio programmes for the BBC World Service and TV programmes for the Open University of China.

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