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There have been continuous concern and needs for renovation of topics used for an essay test of the ESL Placement Test (EPT) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The existing three regular topics were perceived biased and unfair by examinees and previous testing researchers as well due to academic nature of the topics. At the end, in fall, 2003, a field-specific (FS) writing test integrated with reading and listening sources was constructed for graduate students with controlling writing tasks per disciplinary area. This paper is aimed to review underpinning theories and studies of English as Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) tests and to describe the entire procedure of the new FS test construction. The test construction undertook a series of tasks from departmental typology, determination of the target content for subtests, drafting of test specifications, and prompt production, to prompt evaluation by a team of ESL TAs and field TAs. The paper further discusses how particular constraints often addressed in the previous literature were handled through the FS test building procedure, and provides suggestions for future better ESAP test development.
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Writing Assessment, Language Testing, EAP Test
