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Tim Moore, Janne Morton and Steve PriceACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe researchers wish to thank the following for their assistance with this project:■■■■staff from the two site universities who participated in the researchProfessor Tim McNamara, and Associate Professor Catherine Elder (University ofMelbourne) who provided advice as members of the project’s reference groupThe researchers also wish to thank IELTS for their support of the project.REFERENCESAlderson, JC, 1990a, ‘Testing reading comprehension skills (Part One)’, Journal of Reading in aForeign Language, vol 6, no 2, pp 425-38Alderson, JC, 1990b, ‘Testing reading comprehension skills (Part Two)’, Journal of Reading in aForeign Language, vol 7, no 1, pp 465-504Alderson, JC, 2000, Assessing reading, Cambridge University Press, CambridgeAlderson, JC, and Wall, D, 1993, Does washback exist? Applied Linguistics vol 14, no 2, pp 115-29.Allison, D, 1996, ‘Pragmatist discourse and English for academic purposes’, English for SpecificPurposes 15, no 2, pp 85-103Bachman, L and Palmer, A, 1996, Language testing in practice, Oxford University Press, OxfordBallard, B and Clanchy, J, 1991, ‘Assessment by misconception’, in Assessing second languagewriting in academic contexts, ed L Hamp-Lyons, Ablex, Norwood, pp 19-36Barton, D, 1994, Literacy: An introduction to the ecology of written language, Basil Blackwell, OxfordBarton, D and Hamilton, M, 1998, Local literacies: Reading and writing in one community,Routledge, LondonBecher, T, 1989, Academic tribes and territories: Intellectual enquiry and the cultures of disciplines,Open University Press, BuckinghamBourdieu, P, 1990, The logic of practice, Stanford University Press, StanfordBloom, BS, 1956, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The classification of educational goals,Longman, New YorkCarroll, J, 1964, Language and thought, Prentice-Hall, Engelwood Cliffs NJCarver, R, 1997, ‘Reading for one second, one minute, or one year from the perspective of raudingtheory’, Scientific Studies of Reading, vol 1, no 1, pp 3-43256 www.ielts.org