Offering much-needed context on locally-produced tests across Asia, contributors examine emerging models for English language assessment and the impact these large-scale tests have on the teaching and learning of English in the region.

Lily I-Wen Su is a distinguished professor of the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University and Executive Director of the LTTC, a non-profit educational foundation in Taiwan.

Cyril J. Weir (1950-2018) was Professor and Powdrill Chair in English Language Acquisition in CRELLA at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Reading, UK.

Jessica R. W. Wu holds a PhD in Language Testing and is the R&D Program Director at the LTTC.

Editor's Note

Lily I-Wen Su

Foreword: Localization

Barry O'Sullivan

List of Contributors
1 Introduction

Jessica R. W. Wu

2 The General English Proficiency Test in Taiwan: Past, Present, and Future

Rachel Yi-fen Wu

3 TEPS and Its Family of Tests

Yong-Won Lee, Heesung Jun, and Ja Young Kim

4 Vietnamese Standardized Test of English Proficiency-A Panorama

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Quynh

5 Testing Tertiary-Level English Language Learners: The College English Test in China

Jin Yan

6 EIKEN and TEAP: How Two Test Systems in Japan Have Responded to Different Local Needs in the Same Context

Jamie Dunlea, Todd Fouts, Dan Joyce, and Keita Nakamura

7 The English Language Proficiency Assessment for the Malaysian Public Service

Kadeessa Abdul-Kadir

8 Global, Local or "Glocal": Alternative Pathways in English Language Test Provision

Cyril J. Weir