Language Assessment Across Cultures

From Intercultural Communicative Competence to Artificial Intelligence

By (author) Jarosław Krajka

Book cover: Language Assessment Across Cultures

Extent: 365 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Language & Linguistics, Literary Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2025)

ISBN: 9783847118732

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $75.00

In stock

Foreign language assessment takes different shapes across the world, from placement to proficiency testing, from traditional to alternative. Designing tests for multicultural audiences is a necessary skill for teachers of today.


The book makes a comprehensive coverage of cross-cultural aspects of language assessment, evaluating language tests (naturalization and secondary school-exit examinations) and European Language Portfolios from quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Detailed discussion of Computer-Assisted Language Testing with such aspects as language corpora, mobile apps, Computer-Adaptive Tests and Learning Management Systems is framed in the cultural context. The researcher evaluates opportunities of Generative Artificial Intelligence in designing and adapting culturally-sensitive tests, examining culturally-sensitive training of Language Assessment Literacy of language teachers in technology-rich contexts. The book ends with guidelines and recommendations for language test designers and teachers.

  • By (author) Jarosław Krajka