Vol. 20 No. 1-2 (2010)

ARTICLES
• The Reading Proficiency Interview (RPI): A Rapid Response Test Development Model for Assessing Reading Proficiency on the ILR Scale by Lauren Kennedy and Charles W. Stansfield

• Passage Rating: L4 versus L5 Characteristics in the Russian Text Typology by Serguei A. Podoprigora

• Exploring Diverse Settings for Laanguage Acquisition and Use: Comparing Study Abroad, Service Learning Abroad, and Foreign Language Housing by Rob A. Martinsen, Wendy Baker, Dan Dewey, Jennifer Bown, and Cary Johnson

REVIEWS
• Text Complexity and Reading Comprehension Tests, by E. Castello. Reviewed by Mika Hoffman

• Spoken Corpora in Applied Linguistics, edited by Mari Carmen Campoy and
María José Luzón. Reviewed by Lama Nassif

• Political Russian: An Intermediate Course in Russian Language for International Relations, National Security and Socio-Economics, by Natasha Simes and Richard Robin. Reviewed by Edo Forsyth