Tim F. McNamara

List of John Benjamins publications for which Tim F. McNamara plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy

Australian Applied Language Studies

Edited by Tim F. McNamara

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:2 (1987) vi, 236 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy

Volume 3

Edited by Tim F. McNamara

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

Articles

McNamara, Tim F. 2009 Language tests and social policy: A commentaryDiscourses on Language and Integration: Critical perspectives on language testing regimes in Europe, Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle, Clare Mar-Molinero and Patrick Stevenson (eds.), pp. 153–164 | Chapter
This chapter provides a commentary on the other contributions in the volume by relating them to current dilemmas facing language testers working in policy areas involving immigration and citizenship. It is argued that the overt construct of language tests for citizenship (proficiency in… read more
The last two decades have seen the growing use of assessment in the shaping of educational policy in relation to languages. The clearest examples of this in Europe and beyond are the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR: Council of Europe, 2001) and the OECD PISA program for… read more
McNamara, Tim F. 2003 Tearing us apart again: The paradigm wars and the search for validityEUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 3 (2003), Foster-Cohen, Susan H. and Simona Pekarek Doehler (eds.), pp. 229–238 | Article
Language testing research is an increasingly divided field, as it responds to the paradigm shifts in broader applied linguistics research. One the one hand, language testing validation research places a fundamental emphasis on the generalisability of results and the appropriateness of inferences… read more
In this paper an attempt is made to identify the origins and distinctive character of Applied Linguistics in Australia, which differ significantly from those in the United States and the United Kingdom, where the field developed in the context of the English language education of international… read more
McNamara, Tim F. and Joseph Lo Bianco 2001 The distinctiveness of Applied Linguistics in Australia: A historical perspectiveNew Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy: In honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky, Cooper, Robert L., Elana Shohamy and Joel Walters (eds.), pp. 261–269 | Article
McNamara, Tim F. 1987 Language and social identity: Some Australian studiesAustralian Applied Language Studies, McNamara, Tim F. (ed.), pp. 33–58 | Article
The study of language attitudes and language maintenance and shift in intergroup settings has not always been related to an explicit model of the intergroup situation itself. Such a model is available in Tajfel’s Social Identity Theory. This paper explores the potential of the model for predicting… read more