Assessing English for Professional Purposes
Ute Knoch & Susy Macqueen
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.
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.
ক্যাটাগোরিগুলো:
সাল:
2020
সংস্করণ:
1
প্রকাশক:
Routledge
ভাষা:
english
পৃষ্ঠা:
230
ISBN 10:
1138118869
ISBN 13:
9781138118867
ফাইল:
PDF, 11.96 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020