Despite multilingual realities, a monolingual paradigm pervades teaching and assessment practices in various educational contexts. The purpose of the volume is to initiate a global conversation on multilingual assessment, drawing on expertise on multilingualism from the Global South and on language education and assessment from the Global North.
Karin Vogt is Professor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the University of Education in Heidelberg, Germany. Among her research interests are classroom-based language assessment and multilingual language assessment.
Bassey Edem Antia is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His interests span terminology, language policy, multilingual teaching and assessment, and decolonial approaches to language and text analysis.