Multilingualism and Assessment: Achieving transparency, assuring quality, sustaining diversity – Proceedings of the ALTE Berlin Conference May 2005

This volume explores the impact of multilingualism on language testing and assessment, bringing together a selection of edited papers based on presentations at the 2nd ALTE Conference, Berlin, in May 2005. The 20 papers consider ways of describing and comparing language qualifications to establish common levels of proficiency, balancing the need to set shared standards and ensure quality, and at the same time sustain linguistic diversity. Substantive issues in assessing language ability today are addressed, grouped according to three broad themes.