The role of language background in the validation of a computer-adaptive test

Validation in Language Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 195-208

  Brown, Annie ^a   Iwashita, Noriko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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