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Social aspects of individual assessment, Bernard Spolsky;learner-centred testing through computers - institutional issues inindividual assessment, J.Charles Alderson; national issues inindividual assessment - the consideration of specialization bias inuniversity language screening tests, Grant Henning; psychometricaspects of individual assessment, Geofferey N.Masters; individuallearning styles in classroom second language development, Rod Ellis;comprehension of sentences and of intersential relations by 11 to15-year-old pupils, Denis Levasseur and Michel Page; discourseorganization in oral and written language - critical contrasts forliteracy and schooling, Rosalind Horowitz; indeterminacy in first andsecond languages - theoretical and methodological issues, AntonellaSorace; an experiment in individualization using technological support,Norma Norrish; discrete focus vs. global tests - performance onselected verb structures, Harry L.Gradman and Edith Hanania;operationalizing uncertainty in language testing - an argument infavour of content validity, Alan Davies; minority languages andmainstream culture - problems of equity and assessment, Mary Kalantziset al; the role of prior knowledge and language proficiency aspredictors of reading comprehension among undergraduates; the languagetesting interview - a reappraisal, Gillian Perrett; directions intesting for specific purposes, Gill Westway et al.