PAPERS IN LANGUAGE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT 2013

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
• 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

• 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

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


VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1, 2013

Front matter

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 

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Announcement

Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award
Winner: Dr Robert Charles Johnson

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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.