Acknowledgments

We are very grateful for the contributions of Aaron Batty, J.D. Brown, Ikkyu Choi, Luke Harding, Okim Kang, Meghan Moran Wilson, Fumiyo Nakatsuhara, Youngsoon So, Rus Suvorov, and Jon Trace. The seven empirical studies that they contributed allowed us to write a book that examines empirically and in detail vital issues in L2 listening assessment. We are so appreciative of their excellent research and scholarship, and their willingness to lend their expertise to our book. And thanks to all of them for agreeing to “do just one more revision” and for reviewing “just one more draft”. We are honored to have Gary Buck write the preface for this book. Gary’s (2001) book Assessing Listening is the gold standard in L2 listening assessment, and his work has been incredibly influential on our careers. We are also grateful for our amazing colleagues and doctoral students who gave us feedback on various versions and drafts of the different chapters in the book. Thanks to YunDeok Choi, Mark Emerick, Joe Geluso, Sarah Goodwin, Bethany Gray, Hyunwoo Kim, Yen-Fen Alick Liao, Spiros Papageorgiou, Sun Shin, Sinem Sonsaat, Sonca Vo, Linlin Wang, and Ziwei Zhou. We acknowledge our dissertation advisors, Lyle Bachman and Jim Purpura who inspired us to move the field of language testing forward. We thank the editorial team at John Benjamins, especially Kees Vaes, and the editors for the Language Learning and Language Teaching series, Nina Spada and Nelleke van Deusen Scholl, for their thorough reviews and helpful editorial comments.