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SUMMARY:Plurilingualism and Assessment  (with reference to the new Common 
 European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion Volume) - Dr. Nick
  Saville\, Cambridge English Assessment
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will present a perspective on plurilingualism b
 ased on the assertion that language assessment is fundamentally linked to 
 language learning. As Jones and Saville (2016) note\, there are ‘two key
  purposes of assessment: to promote learning\, and to measure and interpre
 t what has been learned.’  \nBut in which ways can these twin goals be a
 chieved more effectively?\nIn educational contexts\, the language to be le
 arned has traditionally been viewed as an additional or foreign language\,
  defined by Kunnan and Saville (2019) as a codified or standard language\,
  that is taught and assessed as a school subject.  However\, Martyniuk and
  others have pointed out that language learning can be viewed differently 
 when using the lens of plurilingualism. This heteroglossic approach focuse
 s on an individual’s entire plurilingual repertoire\, including all stan
 dard languages and dialects at varying levels of proficiency. MacSwan (201
 7) terms this individual multilingualism.\nIn this talk I use the Common E
 uropean Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)’s definition of plur
 ilingualism and focus on the recently published Companion Volume (Council 
 of Europe\, 2018). This document has two new sets of descriptors for pluri
 lingualism: plurilingual comprehension and building plurilingual repertoir
 es. \nHeteroglossic approaches of this kind have grown in recent years (e.
 g. Blackledge & Creese\, 2010)\, but the impact on language assessment has
  been limited (Schissel\, De Korne and López-Gopar\, 2018).  This is set 
 to change. The long-term goal should be to align learning and assessment e
 ffectively to create the necessary conditions for building plurilingual re
 pertoires. To achieve this\, there will need to be new forms of plurilingu
 al assessment\, with technology inevitably playing a key role.\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
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