Contemporary Second Language Assessment

Abstract

In their introduction to Contemporary Second Language Assessment, Jayanti Banerjee and Dina Tsagari suggest that this book is intended both as a ‘one volume reference’ and as a ‘primary source of enrichment material’ for a wide readership including, of particular relevance to readers of ELT Journal, language teachers and teacher trainers. Available in hardback and ebook editions and priced at almost £130, this would be a substantial investment for individual teachers or students. Because it enters an already rather crowded field of collections on language assessment issues, the book needs to work hard to justify its claims against a number of other impressive titles published within the past five years. These range from the monumental, multi-volume Companion to Language Assessment (Kunnan 2013) to the Sage/ILTA award-winning Routledge Handbook of Language Testing (Fulcher and Davidson 2013) and the more introductory Cambridge Guide to Second Language Assessment (Coombe, Davidson, O’Sullivan, and Stoynoff, 2012), not to mention another volume also edited by Tsagari and Banerjee (2016), the Handbook of Second Language Assessment.

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