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Hi laiyuda. I think it's great that you're conducting research but I think it's important to know the purpose of your paper. Depending on your objectives, is it wise to look for native speakers over the net? Should you control for the type of standard English used such as "Received Pronunciation (Br...

exams and traditional paper and pencil tests fall under traditional testing.

rubrics, scoring sheets, continuous assessment, portfolio assessment, performance evaluations, etc all fall under "Assessment" or "Authentic Assessment."

Try (if you haven't already) looking through the following professional journals:

1. Language Testing
2. Language in Society
3. TESOL Quarterly

You could also look for the following authors:

1. Bachman
2. Nunnan

hope this helps a bit

I think a more important but related question to "how often we should test" is "what kind of test" should be given. Are traditional paper-pencil tests more appropriate than authentic assessment or continuous assessment? There are ways to evaluate or assess our students without testing them, but we m...

Hi! I'm new to the forum and wondering where to get a good PhD in applied linguistics