Sadeghi, K., & Douglas, D. (Eds.). (2023). Fundamental Considerations in Technology Mediated Language Assessment (1st ed.).

In response to the unprecedented situation that was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, test administrations were required to take place online in many places over the world.Such a transition made it indispensable to incorporate technology into language assessment, beyond the notion that test administrations are facilitated, rather than mandated, by technology use.Consequently, many language testing programs were immediately urged to discuss whether and how to transform their pencil-and-paper tests into online tests, including those that have to be delivered remotely, by making use of technologies that they had not used for their tests.This dramatic shift in logistics naturally engendered testing programs' rethinking of their tests from existing and new perspectives that are fundamental to maintaining validity of score interpretation and use.In response to these immediate needs, Fundamental considerations in technology mediated language assessment, edited by two well-known language testing researchers-Karim Sadeghi and Dan Douglas-introduces theoretical and practical considerations surrounding technology-mediated language assessment (TMLA).The book is intended to fill the gap in previous literature by explicitly addressing the relationship between theoretical underpinnings of language testing and technology use.As such, this book introduces upto-date issues around TMLA along with traditional frameworks, constituting "the current end point for TMLA" (p.xviiii).The book consists of four major sections each of which includes three to five chapters along with the foreword given by Lyle Bachman and the introduction chapter authored by the two editors.This book review firstly summarizes each of the four major sections and then provides a review of this book.Part I addresses validity issues in TMLA, consisting of five chapters.Chapter 2 introduces long-standing theoretical models of language ability, such as those proposed by Canale and Swain (1980) and Bachman (1990), and provides a comprehensive review of previous studies that compared conversations in face-to-face and online conditions.While