LINGUIST List 7.1684

Fri Nov 29 1996

TOC: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Series S,13

Editor for this issue: Ljuba Veselinova <lveselinemunix.emich.edu>

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1. Peter White, TOC ALAA Series S,13

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA)

The Language Testing Cycle: From Inception to Washback
	Gillian Wigglesworth & Catherine Elder (Eds.)

Series S, Number 13, 1996

ISSN 0817-9514

(c) ALAA

CONTENTS:

Catherine Elder and Gillian Wigglesworth: "Perspectives on the Testing
		Cycle: Setting the scene."

Lesleyanne Hawthorne: "The Politicisation of English: The case of the
		STEP test and the Chinese Students."

Rosemary Baker: "Developing Language Tests for Specific Populations."

Carolyn E. Turner and John A. Upshur: "Developing Rating Scales for
		the Assessment of Second Language Performance."

Nikhat Shameem and John Read: "Administering a Performance Test in
		Fiji Hindi."

Tom Lumley and Annie Brown: "Specific-purpose Language Performance
		Tests: Task and interaction."

Joy McQueen: "Rasch Scaling: How valid is it as the basis for
		content-referenced descriptors of test performance?"

Michelle Chalhoub-Deville: "Test Interpretation, Test Use, and
		Pedagogical Implications."

Yoshinori Watanabe: "Investigating Washback in Japanese EFL
		Classrooms: problems of methodology."


For information on how to obtain ALAA publications, contact:

Dr Francis Mangubhai
ALAA Business Manager
Centre for Language Learning and Teaching
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba, QLD 4350, Australia
Tel: +61 76 31 1804; Fax: +61 76 31 1801.
Email: mangubhausq.edu.au