Practice and Problems in Language Testing 8. Papers presented at the International Language Testing Symposium of the Interuniversitare Sprachtestgruppe (8th, Tampere, Finland, November 17-18, 1984). AFinla Series No. 40.

A collection of papers on language testing addresses these topics: language tests seen from a communicative viewpoint; microcomputers and testing; productive second language skills; developing teachers' assessment skills; content validity of holistic tests; statistical regression in group conversation tests; reading comprehension; unique articulatory and auditory dimensions for English as a second language data; foreign language needs in Czechoslovakia; language test dimensionality; adolescent native language proficiency assessment; assessment at the end of secondary school; estimating the quantity of students' second language vocabulary; the language laboratory; informal assessment; cultural knowledge as part of language skills in cross-cultural communication; and classroom English for German schools. (MSE)