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PAPERS IN LANGUAGE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT

VOLUME 10, ISSUE 1, 2021

SPECIAL ISSUE: 
Negotiating tensions between language assessment policies and practices: the role of the language testing professional​. A celebration of 30 years of work at the University of Melbourne’s Language Testing Research Centre (1990-2020)
GUEST EDITOR: Cathie Elder

Front matter + Introduction

Foreword
  • Language testing within policy contexts: Conceptual and instrumental challenges
    Tim McNamara, University of Melbourne
Articles
  • Towards ‘policy responsible’ language testing: Framing the Language Testing Research Centre’s contribution in languages other than English
    Cathie Elder, University of Melbourne
  • The challenges of providing expert advice in policy contexts
    Ute Knoch, University of Melbourne
  • Trust the test: Score-user perspectives on the roles of language tests in professional registration and skilled migration
    Susy Macqueen, Australian National University, John Pill, Lancaster University & Ute Knoch, University of Melbourne
  • Negotiating the boundaries of responsibility: Rethinking test takers and the ethics of testing
    Kellie Frost, University of Melbourne
Coda
  • The generations: Research and application at the LTRC
    Joe Lo Bianco, University of Melbourne
Book reviews
  • The Development and Validation of Standards in Language Testing.
    Reviewed by Yan Jin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Assessing English for Professional Purposes.
    Reviewed by Kathryn Hill, Deakin University


VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2, 2021

Front matter 

Articles
  • The effect of prompt accent on elicited imitation assessments in English as a second language
    Jacob G. Barrows & Troy L. Cox, Brigham Young University
  • The face of communication breakdown: Multimodal repair in L2 oral proficiency interviews
    J. Dylan Burton, Michigan State University

Book reviews
  • Assessing Speaking in Context: Expanding the Construct and its Applications
    Reviewed by Ying Chen & Qi Lu, Ocean University of China
  • Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation and Development.
    Reviewed by Michelle Czajkowski, University of Melbourne




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