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Publication details [#48888]

Scarino, Angela. 2008. The Role of Assessment in Policy-Making for Languages Education in Australian Schools: A Struggle for Legitimacy and Diversity. Current Issues in Language Planning 9 (3) : 344–362.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | education | language policy | language proficiency

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper discusses the changing role of language testing in policy-making for languages education in Australia over the past 20 years, defined by a complex, shifting language policy-curriculum-evaluation interface.