Tim F. McNamara

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

Titles

Language Testing Colloquium: Selected papers from a Colloquium at the Horwood Language Center, University of Melbourne, 24–25 August, 1987

Edited by Tim F. McNamara

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:2 (1988) vii, 98 pp.

Australian Applied Language Studies

Edited by Tim F. McNamara

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:2 (1987) vi, 236 pp.

Volume 3

Edited by Tim F. McNamara

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 3] 1986. v, 135 pp.

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

Articles (6) | Order by:

McNamara, Tim F. 2009 Language tests and social policy: A commentary Discourses 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

McNamara, Tim F. 2009 A Two-Edged Sword: Comparative Assessment Frameworks And Language Education Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 82, pp. 9–19 | Article

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 validity EUROSLA 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

McNamara, Tim F. 2001 The roots of applied linguistics in Australia Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 24:1, pp. 13–29 | Article

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 perspective New 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 studies Australian 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