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Subject: 7.1684, TOC: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Series S,13
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
 
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA)
 
The Language Testing Cycle: From Inception to Washback
	Gillian Wigglesworth & Catherine Elder (Eds.)
 
Series S, Number 13, 1996
 
ISSN 0817-9514
 
(c) ALAA
 
CONTENTS:
 
Catherine Elder and Gillian Wigglesworth: "Perspectives on the Testing
		Cycle: Setting the scene."
 
Lesleyanne Hawthorne: "The Politicisation of English: The case of the
		STEP test and the Chinese Students."
 
Rosemary Baker: "Developing Language Tests for Specific Populations."
 
Carolyn E. Turner and John A. Upshur: "Developing Rating Scales for
		the Assessment of Second Language Performance."
 
Nikhat Shameem and John Read: "Administering a Performance Test in
		Fiji Hindi."
 
Tom Lumley and Annie Brown: "Specific-purpose Language Performance
		Tests: Task and interaction."
 
Joy McQueen: "Rasch Scaling: How valid is it as the basis for
		content-referenced descriptors of test performance?"
 
Michelle Chalhoub-Deville: "Test Interpretation, Test Use, and
		Pedagogical Implications."
 
Yoshinori Watanabe: "Investigating Washback in Japanese EFL
		Classrooms: problems of methodology."
 
 
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