1. LADO as a Language Test: Issues of Validity
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Maaike Verrips, Tim McNamara, and Carolien Van Den Hazelkamp
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060201 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,Communication ,Refugee ,Field (Bourdieu) ,Comprehension approach ,06 humanities and the arts ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,Language assessment ,0602 languages and literature ,Subject (grammar) ,Language education ,Psychology ,Natural language ,Language pedagogy - Abstract
This article brings together the theoretical field of language testing and the practical field of language analysis for the determination of the origin of asylum seekers. It considers what it would mean to think of language analysis as a form of language test, subject to the same validity constraints, and proposes a research agenda.
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- 2014
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