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

Series: Interdisziplinare Verortungen der Angewandten Linguistik

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2025)

ISBN: 9783847118732

6.34 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.

Prof. Dr Jarosław Krajka, Associate Professor, is Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland. He is founder of the journal “Teaching English with Technology” (Scopus Q1). His research interests include Computer-Assisted Language Learning, intercultural dimensions of language teaching methodology and intercultural communication.

  • By (author) Jarosław Krajka