Assessing listening for academic purposes: Defining and operationalising the test construct

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-101

  Taylor, Lynda ^a   Geranpayeh, Ardeshir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic listening; Assessing listening; Construct definition; EAP; Listening tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957615709     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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