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The book uncovers a previously overlooked group affected by the Catholic Church's child sex abuse scandals: non-offending priests. Through interviews with fellow clergy, Revd Dr Barry O'Sullivan, a serving priest and counselor, reveals the significant psychological impact these scandals have had on priests, who are often seen as secondary victims. This study, initially part of his doctoral research, highlights the broader implications for professionals in various fields facing similar crises, emphasizing the need for recognition and support for these individuals.

Traces New Zealand's overseas army from Egypt in January 1940 to northern Italy in April 1945, by way of Thermopylae, El Alamein, Cassino and the South Pacific islands. Like their fathers in the Great War, the 'Kiwis' responded to Britain's peril in extraordinary numbers - 12 percent of the Dominion's entire population served overseas. Led by a much-wounded and much-decorated general, they endured, and learned from, costly defeats in Greece and North Africa, to become one of the most reliable and mobile divisions in the Allied armies.--Cover

The revision of the Cambridge ESOL Business English certificates is thoroughly explored, providing valuable insights into the test revision process. This book delves into the updates and changes made to the certificates, highlighting their significance in the context of business communication. It serves as a comprehensive guide for educators and learners aiming to understand the nuances of the revised tests and improve their preparation strategies.

Focusing on language testing theory and practice, this book features diverse chapters that engage and provoke thought. It compiles contributions from both established and emerging authors, offering innovative perspectives and questioning traditional beliefs in the field. Researchers and students will find the content both stimulating and substantial, making it a valuable resource for those interested in advancing their understanding of language assessment.

Focusing on the evolution of validity, this book offers a historical perspective on its development in the UK and the US. It delves into both theoretical concepts and practical validation methods, emphasizing the various arguments essential for ensuring quality documentation. Through its comprehensive analysis, it addresses the complexities surrounding the notion of validity in research and assessment.

Focusing on the theoretical foundations of language testing, this collection of original articles equips language teachers with essential insights into key issues in the field. It offers a comprehensive understanding of various testing methodologies and their implications for effective language instruction, making it a valuable resource for educators seeking to enhance their assessment practices.

Validity: Theoretical Development and Integrated Arguments provides a historical overview of validity, targeting developments in both the UK and the US. It explores theoretical notions of validity as well as pragmatic validation practices and expands the arguments that need to be attended to document quality.

When we use a language we are always aware of our audience. This awareness is reflected, for example, in changes to the way we speak to the same person in different contexts or to different people in the same context. This book explores the way in which test takers’ language can change in test events depending on either real or perceived similarities or differences between themselves and their interlocutors. The series of five studies reported are designed to explore aspects of test-taker performance on tests of speaking, and in doing so provide evidence in support of a proposed model of speaking test performance. Though the studies focus primarily on the effect on test-taker performance of characteristics associated with their interlocutor, they also provide empirical evidence of interactions between the factors. There are clear implications from the findings for all of those people involved in language testing and in researching spoken language.

InhaltsverzeichnisAbstract Verification and Debugging of Constraint Logic Programs.CGRASS: A System for Transforming Constraint Satisfaction Problems.Interchangeability in Soft CSPs.Towards Automated Reasoning on the Properties of Numerical Constraints.Domain-Heuristics for Arc-Consistency Algorithms.Computing Explanations and Implications in Preference-Based Configurators.Constraint Processing Offers Improved Expressiveness and Inference for Interactive Expert Systems.A Note on Redundant Rules in Rule-Based Constraint Programming.A Study of Encodings of Constraint Satisfaction Problems with 0/1 Variables.A Local Search Algorithm for Balanced Incomplete Block Designs.The Effect of Nogood Recording in DPLL-CBJ SAT Algorithms.POOC — A Platform for Object-Oriented Constraint Programming.A Coordination-Based Framework for Distributed Constraint Solving.Visopt ShopFloor: Going Beyond Traditional Scheduling.