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    1. Specific Purpose Language Testing (LSP) refers to language tests designed for specific uses like English for business or Spanish for tourism where the test content and methods are based on an analysis of the language needs in those situations. 2. LSP tests are meant to measure language skills needed for particular purposes, though all tests measure language for some purpose along a continuum from general to highly specific. 3. LSP tests aim to make tasks as authentic as possible to the real-life situations being tested, but there is criticism that subject knowledge can interfere with measuring language ability.

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    1. Specific Purpose Language Testing (LSP) refers to language tests designed for specific uses like English for business or Spanish for tourism where the test content and methods are based on an analysis of the language needs in those situations. 2. LSP tests are meant to measure language skills needed for particular purposes, though all tests measure language for some purpose along a continuum from general to highly specific. 3. LSP tests aim to make tasks as authentic as possible to the real-life situations being tested, but there is criticism that subject knowledge can interfere with measuring language ability.

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    1. Specific Purpose Language Testing (LSP) refers to language tests designed for specific uses like English for business or Spanish for tourism where the test content and methods are based on an analysis of the language needs in those situations. 2. LSP tests are meant to measure language skills needed for particular purposes, though all tests measure language for some purpose along a continuum from general to highly specific. 3. LSP tests aim to make tasks as authentic as possible to the real-life situations being tested, but there is criticism that subject knowledge can interfere with measuring language ability.

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    1. Specific Purpose Language Testing (LSP) refers to language tests designed for specific uses like English for business or Spanish for tourism where the test content and methods are based on an analysis of the language needs in those situations. 2. LSP tests are meant to measure language skills needed for particular purposes, though all tests measure language for some purpose along a continuum from general to highly specific. 3. LSP tests aim to make tasks as authentic as possible to the real-life situations being tested, but there is criticism that subject knowledge can interfere with measuring language ability.

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    27-03-2020
    1. Testing language for specific purposes (LSP) refers to that branch of
    language testing in which the test content and test methods are derived from
    an analysis of a specific language use situation, such as Spanish for
    Business, Japanese for Tour Guides, Italian for Language Teachers, or
    English for Air Traffic Control.

    2. LSP tests are usually contrasted with general purpose of language tests, tests
    are not either general purpose or specific purpose-all tests are developed for
    some purpose, but there is a continuum of specificity from very general to
    very specific and a given test may fall at any point on the continuum.

    3. Specific Purpose Language Testing has been criticized as the tests are
    unreliable and invalid because of interference of subject knowledge with the
    measurement of language knowledge.

    4. Two aspects of LSP testing:


     Authenticity of the Task
     Interaction between language knowledge and specific purpose
    content or background knowledge.

    5. Authenticity of tasks means that an LSP test shares critical features of tasks
    in the target specific purpose of language use situation of interest to the test
    takers. The intent of linking the test tasks to non-test tasks in this way is to
    engage the test takers language knowledge in carrying out the test tasks as
    far as possible in the same way it would be in responding to the target
    situations.
    6. Development of LSP testing: It starts with the needs-analysis through which
    the purpose of the assessment is defined, the target population is identified
    and the target language use task and language characteristics then focuses on
    the development of task tests.

    7. Critical features of LSP: Planned to meet the learner’s specific needs, co-
    relates in contents and to particular systems occupations and activities,
    focuses on the language topics skills, discourse and genres suitable to these
    activities, applying the methodology and activities of the discipline it serves,
    limited to the language to be learned.

    8. Reasons why new LSP tests are important

    1. The language performance varies with the context and test tasks.
    2. That specific language is precise.

    9. LSP tests are related to other types of language tests – In testing


    communicative language ability we are evaluating sample of performance in
    certain specific contexts of the use created under particular test constraints
    for what they can tell us about the learner’s communicative capacity or
    language ability.
    General purpose language testing: Aims the eventual target behaviors of
    learners. Objectives are pedagogical constructs which enable learners to
    achieve the behavioral targets. Goals to provide learners with an ability to
    solve their problems outside the classroom.
    Specific purpose language tests: The collapse of distinction between aims
    and objectives.
    Content is based on needs-analysis of learners.
    It lacks strategies to enable students to adapt new unspecifiable situation in
    the real world.

    10. LSP tests developed on criterion referenced tests and norm referenced tests.
    Both are different in design and interpretation we make in their performance.
    A. Criterion referenced tests (CR): It interprets test tasks performance with
    reference to criterion level. It is of most direct relevance in LSP testing
    regarding authenticity. It involves detailed analysis of TLU situation. It
    specifies a criterion for the performance of test takers.
    B. Norm referenced tests (NR): It ranks tests takers according to the ability
    being tested.

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