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Shohamy, Elana – Modern Language Journal, 2011
All assessment policies and practices are based on monolingual constructs whereby test-takers are expected to demonstrate their language proficiency in one language at a time. Thus, the construct underlying these assessment approaches and/or scales (e.g., the CEFR) is of language as a closed and finite system that does not enable other languages…
Descriptors: Testing, Language Tests, Multilingualism, Ideology