Tests and Us A Collection of Real Stories

The present book, Tests and Us: A Collection of Real Stories, compiles the first series of short stories written by postgraduate students (MA level) of Applied Linguistics, in partial fulfilment of a course on language assessment, called Language Evaluation and Accountability (BBI5216) offered at the Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia. The writers come from different countries, giving each story a different flavor representing the features of assessment in various cultures. This makes the book a unique collection of real stories by real people from diverse educational settings which will engage the readers in what they read.