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  <titleInfo>
    <title>An investigation into the comparability of two tests of English as a foreign language</title>
  </titleInfo>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Bachman Lyle F.</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  </name>
  <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Cambridge</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1995</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
  </originInfo>
  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xv, 228 pages : 24 cm</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <tableOfContents>Introduction: A not-too-special relationship --
Chapter 1 Overview of the study --
Chapter 2 Study procedures and sample characteristics --
Chapter 3 Reliability of the two test batteries --
Chapter 4 Comparability of abilities measured --
Chapter 5 Effect of test preparation on test performance --
Chapter 6 Interchangeability of FCE and ETS test scores --
Chapter 7 Test content analysis --
Chapter 8 Implications and recommendations.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Lyle F. Bachman [and others] ; with an introduction by Bernard Spolsky.</note>
  <note>Includes index</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Test of English as a Foreign Language</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>English language -- Examinations</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc">PE1128 .B12</classification>
  <relatedItem type="series">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Studies in language testing, 1</title>
    </titleInfo>
  </relatedItem>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780521484671</identifier>
  <identifier type="issn">0521484677</identifier>
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