Article published In: Language Testing Colloquium: Selected papers from a Colloquium at the Horwood Language Center, University of Melbourne, 24–25 August, 1987
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:2] 1988
► pp. 88–96
The repetition test seen from an oral communicative point of view
Published online: 1 January 1988
https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.11.2.08sau
https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.11.2.08sau
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