林奇著的《語言課程評估：理論與實踐》一書從宏觀上探討了語言課程的評估方法，填補了應用語言學論著在這方面的空白，向教師、語言研究人員和教育管理人員全面地介紹了課程評估的各種定性和定量分析的方法。作者將理論研究和教學實踐有機地結合，從而提出了一個為語言教育課程度身定制的課程評估方法。該方法可以根據不同的情況進行調整，同時也可以隨著教與學的變化與‘發展而逐步完善。

Series editors preface
Preface
1 Introduction
Definitions: Applied linguistics, evaluation, program
Critical issues
Program evaluation and applied linguistics research
2 Historical background
The paradigm dialog
Evaluation of language education programs in the 1960s and 1970s
More recent developments in the evaluation of language education programs
Summary
3 Validity
Validity from the positivistic perspective
Validity from the naturalistic perspective
Conclusions: Validity from the two perspectives
4 Positivistic designs
True experimental designs
Quasi-experimental designs
5 Naturalistic designs
The responsive model
The illumination model
Goal-free evaluation
The judicial model
The connoisseurship model
Other metaphors for naturalistic evaluation
6 Quantitative data gathering and analysis
Data gathering
Data analysis
Conclusion
7 Qualitative data gathering and analysis
Overview
Data gathering
Data analysis
8 Combining positivistic and naturalistic program evaluation
Compatibilist versus incompatibilist perspectives
Mixed strategies
Multiple strategies
Mixed designs
Mixed designs and strategies over time
Conclusions
CAM step 1 (audience and goals): Determine the purpose of the evaluation
CAM steps 2 and 3 (context inventory and preliminary thematic framework): Determine what is being evaluated
CAM steps 4 and 5 (evaluation design and data collection): Select a design and collect the data
CAM step 6 (data analysis): Analyze and interpret your findings
CAM step 7 (evaluation report): Communicating the evaluation findings
The role of program evaluation in applied linguistics research
References
Author index
Subject index