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Language Assessment of EMI Content Teachers: What Norms

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A number of universities have implemented policies for internal assessment of lecturers’ English proficiency to ensure the quality of teaching in EMI programmes. Given the complexity of the multilingual teaching and learning contexts in which these assessments are administered and used, decisions about what English norms lecturers’ performances are assessed against have been a struggle. The selection of appropriate norm can warrant the quality of the assessment instrument and the validity of the procedure, as well as the avoidance of bias. Therefore, this chapter discusses the selection of English norm(s) in relation to the validity of a performance-based EAP certification test.

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    Niina Hynninen

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Dimova, S. (2020). Language Assessment of EMI Content Teachers: What Norms. In: Kuteeva, M., Kaufhold, K., Hynninen, N. (eds) Language Perceptions and Practices in Multilingual Universities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38755-6_14

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