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Saville, Nick – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
This paper focuses on educational policy and language learning in compulsory education in the European context, and suggests how multilingualism can be addressed more effectively. The wider policy landscape has influenced language education in Europe over the past 25 years, in particular through the policies of the Council of Europe and the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Limerick, Nicholas – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
Global efforts for standards-based linguistic assessment increasingly hold that examinees should be tested in the language with which they are most familiar. Yet, language use still occurs differently from its characterization in exams, even as exams are increasingly developed in historically minoritized languages. Drawing from two years of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Variation, Language Attitudes, American Indian Languages
Brown, Amanda – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
This article discusses the implications of "multicompetence" (Cook, 1991), defined as an individual's knowledge of more than one language, for language assessment. The growing psycholinguistic evidence highlighting variability in native speaker performance as a result of multicompetence is reviewed, evidence that further questions the validity of…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Difficulty Level