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CRELLA Library and Archive

From our involvement in many projects in Asia, Europe, South America and Africa over the last 25 years we have established extensive collections of seminal articles in the fields of reading, listening, speaking, writing and general proficiency.

As a member of the network, we also have an extensive collection of material relating to the development of the Common European Framework for Languages, including an important archive of papers from John Trim, co-author of the Threshold series.

In addition, the CRELLA library holds an up-to-date collection of language testing books and journals. View a list of a selection of these books and resources [PDF]

In 2009 CRELLA also benefited from the donation of an extensive archive of testing materials and resources created over the last thirty years at Lancaster 91ºÚÁÏÍø. These resources contribute to the status of CRELLA as the UK's main research centre in the field, and are open to CRELLA and external staff and students by appointment. They include materials relating to over 50 test providers and examination boards in the UK and internationally, with samples of tests, specifications and information on test development. View full list of the test providers and exam boards represented in the CRELLA Lancaster archive.

CRELLA also has a collection of Studies in Language Testing [PDF] (SiLT) books available for loan to students and associates.

In terms of research notes and reports published by examination broads, we hold hard copies of:

• Cambridge Research Notes: numbers 1 to 49; you can also view these online at
• The CRELLA Library also holds hard copies of TOEFL Technical Reports [PDF]
• TOEFL Monograph [PDF]
• TOEFL Research Reports [PDF]

CRELLA students can also utilise research tools such as Winsteps, Facets, and NeuroSolutions from the CRELLA library. Research tools such as are available for download from the 91ºÚÁÏÍø library. Other resources include the following:

English Profile

Work on the

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Research

See the extensive archive of research articles from Cambridge ESOL / Cambridge English Language Assessment:

IELTS publications:

TOEFL research archives:

Resources websites

In addition to CRELLA's own resources, we recommend the website run by Professor Glenn Fulcher, which offers a superb set of testing resources:

Statistics

Useful information on and references to other websites and links to tutorial sites.

Software for and useful information on Rasch training courses and publications.

Text Analysis

Coh-Metrix calculates the coherence of texts on a wide range of measures.

: a website for analysing and learning about English words.

Email lists and bulletin boards

LTEST-L is the discussion list of the International Language Testing Association. Its purpose is to encourage the discussion of language testing theory, research and practice. Membership is open to anyone who wishes to join.

To join LTEST-L, send a one line message to: [email protected]