1. An investigation of the effectiveness and validity of planning time in Part 2 of the IELTS Speaking Test / Catherine Elder and Gillian Wigglesworth -- 2. An examination of the rating process in the revised IELTS Speaking Test / Annie Brown -- 3. Candidate discourse in the revised IELTS Speaking Test / Annie Brown -- 4. The impact on candidate language of examiner deviation from a set interlocutor frame in the IELTS Speaking Test / Barry O'Sullivan and Yang Lu -- 5. Exploring difficulty in Speaking tasks : an intra-task perspective / Cyril Weir, Barry O'Sullivan and Tomoko Horai -- 6. The interactional organisation of the IELTS Speaking Test / Paul Seedhouse and Maria Egbert -- 7. An investigation of the lexical dimension of the IELTS Speaking Test / John Read and Paul Nation
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