‘THE CAMBRIDGE LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT SERIES Series editors: J. Charles Alderson and Lyle F. Bachman In this series : Assessing Vocabulary by John Read Assessing Reading by J, Charles Alderson Assessing Language for Specific Purposes Dan Douglas UNIVERSITY PRESS. oS CAMBRIDGEPUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATH OF THB UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pit Building. Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom ‘The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK. http://www.cup.cam.ec.uk “a0 West 2th Street, New York, NY 10011=4211, USA _http:/fwww.cup.ong 10 Stamford Road, Oableigh, Mefbourne 3166, Australia Fuls de Alarobn 13, 20014 Madeld Spain (© Cambridge University Press 2000 This book isin copyright. Subject to statutory exception land to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction ot any part my take place without ‘the written permission of Cambeldge University ress. First published 2000 Printed in the United Kingdom st the University Press, Cambridge ‘Typeface Utopia (The Enechedé Font Foundry) 9113 pt. System 3B2ica\ < ‘A catalogue record for this book is availabe from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data appled for ISBN 0.521 58495 7 hardbeck ISBN 0 521 58543 0 paperback To Matt and BenContents Series editors preface ‘Acknowledgements Why test language for specific purposes? Specific purpose language abllity Contest, discourse domains, and task characteristics Strategic competence: bebween knowledge and context From target language use to test tasks Specific purpose tests of Ustening and speaking Specific purpose tests of reading and writing LSP test development and technology ‘Appendix: other LSP tess References Index 129 189 248 283, 288 299