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This paper is a contribution to the field of language assessment, namely testing writing. It focuses on the design of test tasks and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of delivering the instructions and prompts in the target (L2) versus native (L1) languages. It analyses the impact of target and native language prompts on the test taker’s performance. The authors analyse the writing ability test results of a high-stakes proficiency examination using two sets of prompts, one given in L1, and one in L2. Both...