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 English Profile 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 here - PDF 70.5 KB

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 University. 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 40.6 KB (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 research.cambridgeesol.org
• The CRELLA Library also holds hard copies of TOEFL Technical Reports - PDF 34.5 KB
• TOEFL Monograph - PDF 40.8 KB
• TOEFL Research Reports - PDF 54.6 KB

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

English Profile

Work on the Common European Framework of References for Languages, Learning, Teaching and Assessment (CEFR)

The website of English Profile, the collaborative programme to enhance the learning, teaching and assessment of English worldwide, of which CRELLA is a member organisation.

Research

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

• Cambridge ESOL Research Notes archive

IELTS publications:

• IELTS Jointly Funded and Published Research

TOEFL research archives:

• TOEFL Research/Technical Reports, TOEFL Monograph series

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:

• Language Testing Resources

Statistics

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

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

Text Analysis

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

Compleat Lexical Tutor: 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: LTEST-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU