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Towards improved language assessment of written health professional communication: the case of the Occupational English Test
Ute Knoch, Language Testing Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia
Tim McNamara, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia
Robyn Woodward-Kron, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Australia
Cathie Elder, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia
Elizabeth Manias, Faculty of Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University, Australia, School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia
Eleanor Flynn, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ying Zhang, Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment, Melbourne, Australia
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Volume 4, Issue 2, 2015
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