What is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world?? Should language testing be a part of it? This book addresses the urgent need to develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing than is currently available, to enable widespread discussion of this?theme and the concomitant linguistic and cultural requirements.
The policy proposals for civic integration have so far been?conducted almost entirely at a national level, and with little regard for the experiences of a countries with long traditions of migration, such as the USA, Canada, the?UK or Australia.? At the same time, EU?enlargment and the ongoing rise in the rate of migration into and across Europe suggest that these issues will continue to grow in?importance.
This book raises the level of?discussion?to take account of international developments and to promote a more coherent and?soundly based debate.? It will appeal to researchers and academics working in?sociolinguistics and language education, as well as?those working on language policy.
Acknowledgements \ 1. Testing regimes for newcomers Guus Extra, Massimiliano Spotti and Piet Van Avermaet (Tilburg University, Netherlands and Centre for Equity in Education, Flanders, Belgium) \ PART I Case studies in Europe \ 2. The politics of language and citizenship in the Baltic context Gabrielle Hogan-Brun (University of Bristol, UK) \ 3. Language, migration and citizenship in Sweden Lilian Nygren-Junkin (G?teborg University, Sweden) \ 4. Inventing English as convenient fiction: language testing regimes in the United Kingdom Adrian Blackledge (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) \ 5. Language, migration and citizenship in Germany: discourses on integration and belonging Patrick Stevenson and Livia Schanze (University of Southampton, UK) \ 6. One nation, two policies: language requirements for citizenship and integration in Belgium Piet Van Avermaet and Sara Gysen (Centre lĂd
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