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Abstract

Our interest in putting together the present volume grew out of a burgeoning stream of research into language assessment in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. As the focus on education and the role of English language teaching continues to intensify across these regions at an unprecedented rate, assessing communication skills becomes an increasingly significant field. Some of the major universities in these regions have had a long history in teaching and assessing English and other languages, and researchers, practitioners, and scholars alike have attempted to develop innovative assessment approaches and techniques to address the pressing needs of language test developers and test takers. At the same time, multiple annual conferences, such as Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) and the Asian Association for Language Assessment (AALA) conference, have been launched to bring scholars together and keep them updated about the latest developments in language and educational assessment in these regions.

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