Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1 How to Assess L2 Proficiency? An Overview of Proficiency Assessment Research
Pascale Leclercq and Amanda Edmonds

Part 1�� General Considerations for L2 Assessment
1 Oral Fluency and Spoken Proficiency�� Considerations for Research and Testing
Heather Hilton
3 Multiple Assessments of Oral Proficiency�� Evidence from a Collaborative Platform
4 Using Learner Corpora for Testing and Assessing L2 Proficiency Marcus Callies�� Maria BelCh Dfez-Bedmar and Eleaterina Zaytseva

Part 2�� Language Processing and L2 Proficiency
5 Listening Comprehension�� Processing Demands and Assessment Issues
6 A Psycholinguistic Measurement of Second Language Proficiency�� The Coefficient of Variation
7 Evaluating the Workings of Bilingual Memory with a Translation Recognition Task
Dominique Bairstow�� Jean-Marc Lavaur�� Jannika Laxen and Xavier Aparicio

Part 3�� Focused Assessment Instruments
8'Repeat as Much as You Can'�� Elicited Imitation as a Measure of Oral Proficiency in L2 French
Nicole Tracy-Ventura�� Kevin McManus�� John M�� Norris and Lourdes Ortega
9 Exploring the Acquisition of the French Subjunctive�� Local Syntactic Context or Oral Proficiency?
Kevin McManus�� Nicole Tracy-Ventura�� Rosamond Mitchell�� Laurence Richard and Patricia Romero de Mills
10 Testing L2 Listening Proficiency�� Reviewing Standardized Tests Within a Competence-Based Framework
11 Assessing Language Dominance with the Bilingual Language Profile
Libby M�� Gertken�� Mark Amengual and David Birdsong
Epilogue
Index