Written by a leading expert in both language testing and the nature of reading in a second or
foreign language, this book provides a comprehensive treatment of the assessment of …

This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple
dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how …

Following Swales's (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of
Research Articles (RAs) in various languages and fields abound; however, only scant …

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent there is rhetorical variation
between the research article abstracts written in English for international journals and those …

In Part 1 of this two-part review article (Alderson & Banerjee, 2001), we first addressed
issues of washback, ethics, politics and standards. After a discussion of trends in testing on a …

If tests are to provide an accurate measure of learners' language abilities, examiners must
minimize the influence of intervening factors such as text organization and response format …

This article reviews the empirical and pedagogical literature on the concept of “difficulty”(or
“ease”) in second language (L2) reading at the university or adult level and discusses it …

Genre-based studies on moves structure of research article (RA) abstracts have established
variations across cultures. However, previous studies included at most two countries for …

In schema theoretical views of reading comprehension a distinction has been established
between linguistic, conceptual, and formal schemata. Formal schemata have been …

The increasing numbers of English language learners (ELLs) in Canadian schools pose a
significant challenge to the standards‐based provincial tests used to measure proficiency …