PAPERS IN LANGUAGE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT 2013

VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1, 2013

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​Articles

• Investigating an online rater training program: product and process
  Rosemary Erlam, Janet von Randow and John Read, The University of Auckland. 
• The Diagnostic English Language Tracking Assessment (DELTA) writing project: a case for post-entry assessment policies and practices in Hong Kong universities
  Jane Lockwood, City University of Hong Kong
• 'Tone' and assessing writing: applying Bernstein and Halliday to the problem of implicit value assumptions in test constructs
  Johanna Motteram, The University of Adelaide.
• Developing and validating language proficiency standards for non-native English speaking health professionals
  Catherine Elder, Tim McNamara, Robyn Woodward-Kron, Elizabeth Manias, Geoff McColl, Gillian Webb, John Pill, Sally O'Hagan. University of Melbourne 

​Announcement

Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award
Winner: Dr Robert Charles Johnson

Reviews

• Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (4th ed.), S. M. Gass with J. Behney & L. Plonsky.
  Reviewed by Kellie Frost, University of Melbourne.
• Teaching Foreign Languages in the Primary School. London: Continuum, C. Kirsch. 
  ​Reviewed by Kathryn Hill, University of Melbourne.​

VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2, 2013

Front Matter

Articles

• Concurrent and predictive validity of the Pearson Academic Test of English (PTE Academic)
  Mehdi Riazi, Macquarie University 
• Experimenting with a Japanese automated essay scoring system in the L2 Japanese environment
  Jun Imaki and Shunichi Ishihara, Australian National University
• A framework for validating post-entry language assessments (PELAs)
  Ute Knoch and Cathie Elder, University of Melbourne
• Identification and assessment contexts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners of Standard Australian English: Challenges for the language testing community
  Denise Angelo, Education Queensland​

​Research digest

• Exploring the construct of radiotelephony communication: A critique of the ICAO English testing policy from the perspective of Korean aviation experts
  Hyejeong Kim, University of Melbourne

Reviews

• Routledge Handbook of Language Testing, G. Fulcher & F. Davidson (Eds.)
  Reviewed by Susy Macqueen and Rohan Chandran, University of Melbourne.
• Testing English: Formative and Summative approaches to English assessment, B. Marshall. 
  Reviewed by Takanori Sato, University of Melbourne.
• Review of the Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet Based Test (TOEFL iBT) writing test
  Reviewed by Chelsea Bernal, University of Melbourne.

Announcement
Call for papers for special issue of PLTA