Reading Old English Texts

 

Reading Old English Texts focuses on the critical methods currently being used and developed for reading and analyzing writings in Old English. It is the first collection of its kind in the field and is a timely book, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method, and practice of critical reading in recent years.

The Origins of the English Gentry

The gentry played a central role in medieval England, yet this is the first sustained attempt to explore the origins of the gentry and to account for its contours and peculiarities as a social formation. The book offers definition and conceptual vigour, and argues that the gentry, a kind of lesser nobility, was formed between the mid-thirteenth and the mid-fourteenth century.

Measuring Second Language Performance

Provides a long overdue critical examination of the practice and the theory behind performance based assessment in the context of second language learning.

A Guide to Language Testing - Development, Evaluation, Research

This book was originally published in 1987, this post here is the edition reprinted by Foreign language teaching and research press in China with Chinese scholars' introduction. Except several pages of introduction in Chinese at the beginning of this book, the rest of the book is the same as the original edition.
As the title indicates, this book is an excellent guide to language testing. Henning makes great efforts to explain technical testing terms in very plain language. He covers almost all important aspects in testing, especially reliability and validity. His analysis is clear, detailed and thorough.

The Limits of Language

The Limits of Language concerns itself with the nature and limits of language at a time when our understanding of the world and of ourselves is intimately related to what we understand of language.