The selection of papers on language testing includes: "Language Testing in the 1990s: How Far Have We Come? How Much Further Have We To Go?" (J. Charles Alderson); "Current Research/Development in Language Testing" (John W. Oller, Jr.); "The Difficulties of Difficulty: Prompts in Writing Assessment" (Liz Hamp-Lyons, Sheila Prochnow); "The Validity of Writing Test Tasks" (John Read); "Affective Factors in the Assessment of Oral Interaction: Gender and Status" (Don Porter); "Authenticity in Foreign Language Testing" (Peter Doye); "Evaluating Communicative Tests" (Keith Morrow); "Materials-Based Tests: How Well Do They Work?" (Michael Milanovic); "Defining Language Ability: The Criteria for Criteria" (Geoff Brindley); "The Role of Item Response Theory in Language Test Validation" (T. F. McNamara); "The International English Language Testing System IELTS: Its Nature and Development" (D. E. Ingram); "A Comparative Analysis of Simulated and Direct Oral Proficiency Interviews" (Charles W. Stansfield); "Southeast Asian Languages Proficiency Examinations" (James Dean Brown, H. Gary Cook, Charles Lockhart, Teresita Ramos); "Continuous Assessment in the Oral Communication Class: Teacher Constructed Test" (Shanta Nair-Venugopal); and "What We Can Do with Computerized Adaptive Testing...And What We Cannot Do!" (Michel Laurier). (MSE)