We, the co-editors of this special issue, have collaborated for many years on issues related to the design, development, and implementation of local language tests. In our professional contexts, we each hold academic positions at institutions of higher education that include the standard expectations for research and teaching. In addition, we have also accepted responsibility for the development and maintenance of language testing programs. There are many examples in the language testing literature of language tests that, like ours, have been developed in local educational contexts; however, local language tests are often evaluated as if they should mirror their large-scale counterparts, rather than serve as instruments that can directly address the problems, needs, and values of the local instructional contexts in which the tests reside.

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本地测试，本地上下文

作为本期特刊的共同编辑，我们多年来一直在与本地语言测试的设计、开发和实施相关的问题上进行合作。在我们的专业背景下，我们每个人都在高等教育机构担任学术职位，其中包括对研究和教学的标准期望。此外，我们还承担了开发和维护语言测试程序的责任。语言测试的语言测试文献中有很多例子，就像我们的一样，是在当地教育环境中发展起来的；然而，当地语言测试通常被评估为好像它们应该反映它们的大规模对应物，而不是作为可以直接解决测试所在的当地教学环境的问题、需求和价值观的工具。