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Invited colloquium on negotiating the complexities of multilingual assessment, AAAL Conference 2014

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2015

Kate Menken  and
Elana Shohamy
Kate Menken
Affiliation:
City University of New York – Queens College & Graduate CenterKMenken@gc.cuny.edu
Elana Shohamy
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv Universityelana@post.tau.ac.il
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The invited colloquium on New Directions in Language Assessment held at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) annual meeting in Portland, Oregon on March 22, 2014 brought together an international panel of scholars to together explore the possibilities and challenges of translanguaging and bi/multilingual approaches in assessment. Together, the presenters of this colloquium argued that allowing bi/multilinguals to demonstrate their knowledge and skills using their entire linguistic repertoire offers a promising new approach for teaching and assessment.

Type
Research in Progress
Information
Language Teaching , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , July 2015 , pp. 421 - 425
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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