Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests. This intensely practical book situates testing both within the classroom and within a larger social and educational context. It provides the reader with the necessary tools to design and develop assessments, and gives guidelines on how to evaluate and improve them. The book also offers direction on alignment to standards, and how to manage test administration. The role of large-scale normative testing is discussed, and readers are provided with the knowledge required to prepare learners for tests, and to make realistic and fair decisions about the use and implementation of tests in their own context. Practical Language Testing is the ideal introduction for students of Applied Linguistics, TESOL and Modern Foreign Language teaching as well as for practicing teachers who are required to design or implement language tests. Glenn Fulcher's reference guide to language testing resources can be found at languagetesting.info/ providing a. history of, and links to, other language testing information.