07–604Abbott, Marilyn (Alberta Education, Canada; marilyn.abbott@gov.ab.ca), A confirmatory approach to differential item functioning on an ESL reading assessment. Language Testing (Sage) 24.1 (2007), 7–36.

07–605Barber, Richard (Dubai Women's College, UAE), A practical model for creating efficient in-house placement tests. The Language Teacher (Japan Association for Language Teaching) 31.2 (2007), 3–7.

07–606Cheng, Liying, Don Klinger & Ying Zheng (Queen's U, Canada; chengl@edu.queensu.ca), The challenges of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test for second language students. Language Testing (Sage) 24.2 (2007), 185–208.

07–607Cohen, Andrew (U Minnesota, USA) & Thomas Upton, ‘I want to go back to the text’: Response strategies on the reading subtest of the new TOEFL®. Language Testing (Sage) 24.2 (2007), 209–250.

07–608Dávid, Gergely (Eötvös Loránd U, Hungary; david.soproni@t-online.hu), Investigating the performance of alternative types of grammar items. Language Testing (Sage) 24.1 (2007), 65–97.

07–609Elder, Catherine (U Melbourne, Australia; caelder@unimelb.edu.au), Gary Barkhuizen, Ute Knoch & Janet Von Randow, Evaluating rater responses to an online training program for L2 writing assessment. Language Testing (Sage) 24.1 (2007), 37–64.

07–610Qian, David (The Hong Kong Polytechnic U, China; David.Qian@polyu.edu.hk), Assessing university students: Searching for an English language exit test. RELC Journal (Sage) 38.1 (2007), 18–37.

07–611Scott Walters, Francis (U New York, USA; Francis.Walters@qc.cuny.edu), A conversation-analytic hermeneutic rating protocol to assess L2 oral pragmatic competence. Language Testing (Sage) 24.2 (2007), 155–183.

07–612Shiotsu, Toshihiko (Kurume U, Japan; toshihiko_shiotsu@kurume-u.ac.jp) & Cyril Weir, The relative significance of syntactic knowledge and vocabulary breadth in the prediction of reading comprehension test performance. Language Testing (Sage) 24.1 (2007), 99–128.

07–613Vanderveen, Terry (Kangawa U, Japan), The effect of EFL students' self-monitoring on class achievement test scores. JALT Journal (Japan Association for Language Teaching) 28.2 (2006), 197–206.

07–614Xi, Xiaoming (Educational Testing Service, USA; xxi@ets.org), Evaluating analytic scoring for the TOEFL® Academic Speaking Test (TAST) for operational use. Language Testing (Sage) 24.2 (2007), 251–286.