Trends in assessment scales and criterion-referenced language assessment

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

Volumn 25, Issue , 2005, Pages 205-227

  Hudson, Thom ^a  

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EID: 21644446158     PISSN: 02671905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1017/S0267190505000115     Document Type: Review

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