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In:Migration, Language, and Policy Discourse: Bridging the gap between policymaking and language assessment
Laura Schildt
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 59] 2026
► pp. 130–153

Chapter 8
The emergence of language testing in Flanders

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Article outline
  • Policy logics
  • Policy processes
  • Methodological framework
    • Agenda setting
    • Decision making
    • Implementation
  • Participants
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Agenda setting
    • The politics stream
    • The problem stream
    • The policy stream
  • Decision making
    • Whether to use a test?
    • The pass level
    • Who pays for it?
  • Implementation
    • Constitutional court challenges
    • Collaborative test design
  • Reflections and implications
  • Policy actors
    • The central role of the political stream
    • Mediating implementation
  • Policy decisions
    • Whether to introduce a language test?
    • What level of language?
    • Who should pay for it?
    • Neoliberal ideas in policy formation
  • Concluding remarks
  • Notes
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