Alan Davies is a long-term member of staff of the Department of Applied Linguistics in the University of Edinburgh. Now Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow, he is a former editor of the two journals "Applied Linguistics" and "Language Testing" and was for five years Director of the Language Testing Research Centre, University of Melbourne. In 2001 the International Language Testing Association awarded him its first Lifetime Achievement Award and he has recently been granted a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship for research into Native Speakers and Native Users. His publications include "Princip