On JALT 95: Curriculum and Evaluation. Proceedings of the JALT International Conference on Language Teaching/Learning (22nd, Nagoya, Japan, November 1995). Section Seven: Testing and Evaluation.

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Body Language; Cognitive Style; College Entrance Examinations; Communicative Competence (Languages); Course Evaluation; English (Second Language); Evaluation Criteria; Evaluation Methods; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Instructional Effectiveness; Instructional Material Evaluation; Language Tests; Learning Processes; Listening Skills; Nonverbal Communication; Questionnaires; Second Language Instruction; Second Languages; Secondary Education; Simulation; Student Evaluation; Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance; Task Analysis; Test Reliability; Testing; Verbal Tests

This section contains conference papers on testing and evaluation in second language teaching. They include: "English Language Entrance Examinations in Japan: Problems and Solutions" (James Dean Brown); "Reliability and a Learner Style Questionnaire" (Dale T. Griffee); "Does It Work?" Evaluating Language Learning Tasks" (Rod Ellis); "Communicative Oral Testing" (Marion Delarche, Nicholas Marshall); "Evaluation of Gestures in Non-Verbal Communication" (Barry O'Sullivan); "Our Experiments in Oral Communication Tests" (Shuichi Yonezawa); "Simulations: A Tool for Testing 'Virtual Reality' in the Language Classroom" (Randall S. Davis); "Evaluation of Listening-Focused Classes" (Yoshinobu Niwa, Kazuo Iwata); and "Interpreting Teacher and Course Evaluations" (T. R. Honkomp). Individual papers contain references. (MSE)

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