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papers in language testing and assessment 2015

​VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, 2015
Special Issue, Part 2: Assessing Language in Higher Education
Special Issue Guest Editor Kathryn Hill

Front Matter
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Articles
  • International assessment and local contexts: A case study of an English language initiative in higher educatoin institutes in Egypt 
    Hanan Khalifa, Nahal Khabbazbashi, Samar Abdelsalam, and Mohsen Elmahdy Said. Cambridge English Language Assessment / Cairo University. 
  • Accuplacer Companion in a foreign language context: An argument-based validation of both test score meaning and impact
    Robert C Johnson and A. Mehdi Riazi. University of Calgary in Qatar / Macquarie University.
  • Using an English self-assessment tool to validate an English Placement Test
    Zhi Li. Iowa State University.
  • DIF investigations across groups of gender and academic background in a large-scale high-stakes language test 
    Xiamei Song, Liying Cheng and Don Klinger. Georgia Southern University / Queens' University.

VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, 2015
Front matter

Articles
  • Authentic interaction and examiner accommodation in the IELTS speaking test: A discussion
    Anna Filipi, Monash University
  • Development of a Spanish generic writing skills scale for the Colombian Graduate Skills Assessment
    (Saber Pro)

    Ana Maria Ducasse and Kathryn Hill. RMIT University / La Trobe University
  • Using corpus complexity analysis to refine a holistic ESL writing placement rubric
​         Jeremy Gevara, Pennsylvia State University

Research digest
  • Towards improved language assessment of written health professional communication: the case of the Occupational English Test
    Ute Knoch, Tim McNamara, Robyn Woodward-Kron, Cathie Elder, Elizabeth Manias, Eleanor Flynn, Ying Zhang. University of Melbourne / Deakin University / Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment  

Book reviews
  • Exploring language assessment and testing: Language in action. Green, A.  
    Reviewed by Simon Davidson.
  • Interaction in Paired Oral Proficiency Assessment in Spanish. Ducasse, A.M. 
    Reviewed by Chihiro Inoue. ​