Books

Language testing

TITLE: Language testing
Description: Language Testing is one of the spectrum of language learning/teaching process, the other extreme of which being Language Teaching Methodology with courses like Syllabus Design, Research Methodology, … in between. This book aims at consolidating various past and present approaches, methods and techniques in test construction and results interpretation.
The most perfect and complete approach in language testing is yet to come, since language teaching and testing are relatively young sciences. The intricacies of human brain and his capabilities in learning are still under extensive investigation, so the present knowledge in testing is rudimentary.
The present book tries to help readers learn about these rudiments and also to update them on the recent developments in test construction and test-result interpretation techniques, which is proved to be quite a delicate responsibility.

Language testing

TITLE: Auto run English
Description: Auto run English (New Edition) has been prepared as a supplementary textbook to the highly successful “A General English Course for University Students”, which is being taught as a pre-requisite course, by the same publisher in response to the repeated requests for a book for the 3-unit General English commonly taught in various fields.
This book is mainly designed to develop the reading skills by presenting a range of readings which are of universal human interest.
The selection of readings is based on their relevance to modern life and they deal with issues which are of particular concern to university students.
The authors aim at helping students achieve skills necessary to read accurately and efficiently. So as to get maximum information from a text with the least misunderstanding.

Language testing

TITLE: Methodology of Teaching Forien Language
Description: The main objective of this book is to familiarize the readers with the developmental stages in the methodology of teaching foreign or second languages as far as its history goes. In order words, traditional and modern approaches, methods, and techniques experimented and experienced through a long period are chronologically discussed.
This book has attempted to render a clear picture of changes, developments, and upheavals in the history of teaching to the reader, and rationalize the shifts from one approach/method to the other.
All efforts to bring about such changes have meant to facilitate the teaching methods and enhance the learners’ language learning, upgrading the teachers’ efficiency and the effectiveness of the methods applied.
However, one should bear in mind that theory and practice are interdependent. To make a good teacher, one has but to transcend the boundaries of mere definitions and make use of their practical application.

Language testing

TITLE: Research
Description: The main purpose for writing this book lies in the fact that most first-time researchers do not have a dear and accessible introduction of academic research. The authors have tried to provide the potential researchers with the key issues which need to be identified and resolved in the research process in order to help them develop the required skills.
This book besides providing a comprehensive description of the concept of research and its procedures, elaborates on how to narrow down and state the problems, how to choose and later on use the appropriate sources to conduct a research, how to analyze the collected data, and how to present their findings through a standard format. This work is an attempt to present all the needed issues in a comprehensible language.
The authors have also tired to recommend the most e effective and practical ways of going through various types of research by encouraging the would be researchers who wish to explore and develop their own practice so that they can take the first steps with more confidence.