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Assessing English for Professional Purposes

Assessing English for Professional Purposes

Knoch, Ute
Macqueen, Susy

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in English for Specific Purposes

LinguisticsBilingual Education

ISBN10: 1032338016
ISBN13: 9781032338019
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 13 2022
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

** WINNER OF ILTA/SAGE Best Book Award 2020 **

Assessing English for Professional Purposes provides a state-of-the-art account of the various kinds of language assessments used to determine people's abilities to function linguistically in the workplace. At a time when professional expertise is increasingly mobile and diverse, with highly trained professionals migrating across national boundaries to apply their skills in English-speaking settings, this book offers a renewed agenda for inquiry into language assessments for professional purposes (LAPP). Many of these experts work in high-risk environments where communication breakdowns can have serious consequences. This risk has been identified by governments and professional bodies, who implement language tests for gate-keeping purposes. Through a sociological lens of risk and responsibility, this book:

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