Subscribers are able to post notes and queries as well as to search databases on specific topics. Language Testing Research and Practice is an open forum for discussion on issues pertaining to language testing, theory, and research. The members are mainly university professors and graduate students but there are also researchers in such institutions as the Educational Testing Service. Membership is open to anyone and includes individuals from many countries. Ribo-L is a list for German and English discussion.
Postings are in both languages and the topic range is general in nature.
Although primarily an academic discussion forum for teachers of children around the world, the list is open to all other interested parties. The discussion focuses on the teaching and learning of English as a second or foreign language in primary and secondary schools around the world. Postings are read via a news reader, which keeps track of what messages have or have not been read in a particular thread or discussion topic. You can log on, select a thread, find the new messages, and read them. Ironically, this advantage also becomes a drawback at times.