THOM HUDSON is Professor Emeritus of the UH Department of Second Language Studies. His research focuses on second language reading, program development, and second language testing. His research has appeared in the journals Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Testing, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, and Language and Communication. He is author of Reading in a Second Language and has co-authored or edited four volumes on FL assessment in the NFLRC/UH Press series.