Locale Testing and Language Testing

Locale Testing

Locale Testing is an approach to test an application based on locale parameter Like Date, Currency Value, Time and Language.

Example:

I am having a hard time configuring my locale. Is there an application that will display a date, a currency value, a time, a large integer, a negative number, and some other locale-related data.

Such that I can see how my system is configured? 

Specifically, I want Open Office 3 and Thunderbird 2 to use the yyyy-mm-dd date format but I cannot seem to configure this. I am using the KDE 3.x desktop.

 

Language Testing

Language Testing is a fully peer-reviewed, international, quarterly journal that publishes original research and review articles on language testing and assessment. It provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information between people working in the fields of first and second language testing and assessment. This includes researchers and practitioners in EFL and ESL testing, and assessment in child language acquisition and language pathology. In addition, special attention is focused on issues of testing theory, experimental investigations, and the following up of practical implications.

"The activity of developing and using language tests. As a psychometric activity, language testing traditionally was more concerned with the production, development and analysis of tests. Recent critical and ethical approaches to language testing have placed more emphasis on the uses of language tests. The purpose of a language test is to determine a person’s knowledge and/or ability in the language and to discriminate that person’s ability from that of others. Such ability may be of different kinds, achievement, proficiency or aptitude. Tests, unlike scales, consist of specified tasks through which language abilities are elicited. The term language assessment is used in free variation with language testing although it is also used somewhat more widely to include for example classroom testing for learning and institutional examinations."

International Language Testing Association

ILTA is an international group of language testing and assessment scholars and practitioners whose dedication and work are respected both within and outside the profession, and who together define what it means to be a language tester.   ILTA’s purpose is to promote the improvement of language testing throughout the world. The goals of ILTA include the following: 1. Stimulate professional growth through workshops and conferences; 2. Promote the publication and dissemination of information related to the field of language testing; 3. Develop and provide for leadership in the field of language testing; 4. Provide professional services to its members; 5. Increase public understanding and support of language testing as a profession; 6. Build professional pride among its membership; 7. Recognize outstanding achievement among its membership; 8. Cooperate with other groups interested in language testing; 9. Cooperate with other groups interested in applied linguistics or measurement.     ILTA promotes ethical standards in language testing through its Code of Ethics , adopted at the Annual Business Meeting, March 2000, in Vancouver, British Columbia. ILTA's annual international conference is the language testing Research Colloquium, LTRC