On the Need for a New Model of Language Proficiency and its Implications for Language Testing: A Review of Pishghadam and Zabihi (2012)

The 2012 article, authored by Pishghadam and Zabihi (henceforth P & Z), published in the October issue of the Iranian Journal of Language Testing represents research in the area of language testing and test development that promises to go beyond the development of language tests that measure language per se by addressing learners’ ‘life-related’ issues. The article purports to offer a new model of language proficiency and its applications in the area of language testing and test development.