Language Proficiency: Defining, Teaching, and Testing

Applied Linguistics and Language Proficiency.- Applied Linguistics: Realities and Projections Re the Teaching Profession.- Knowing vs Behaving vs Feeling: Studies on Japanese Bilinguals.- Understanding Interactive Competence in L1/L2 Contrastive Context: A Case of Back-Channel Behavior in Japanese and English.- Using Cognitive Grammar, Natural Phonology, and Item Response Theory to Explain ESL Subjects' Control of the [D] and [Z] Morphemes.- The Affective Filter and Pronunciation Proficiency - Attitudes and Variables in Second Language Acquisition.- Proficiency Without Support: "My Parents Never Spoke It to Me".- Proficiency in Technical English: Lessons from the Bridge.- Language Proficiency in Reading and Writing.- Training Formal Schemata - Replication Results.- Issues in Defining and Assessing Reading Proficiency: The ACTFL Guidelines.- What Composition Theory Offers the Writing Teacher.- Syntax and the Evaluation of College Writing: A Blind Alley.- Discourse Analysis and Embedded Depth of Utterances: Clause Analysis Technique as a Measure of Complexity.- The Role of Literature in Teaching ESL: Still Viable in the 21st Century.- Testing for Language Proficiency.- Communicative and Cognitive Language Proficiency: Implications for Testing in the L2 Classroom.- The Pragmatic Demands of Placement Testing.- A Comparison of Bayesian and Traditional Indices for Measuring Information Gain Sensitivity in a Cloze Test.- The C-Test: A Viable Alternative to the Use of the Cloze Procedure in Testing?.- Testing Language Proficiency in India: Some Problematic Issues.