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Language as Symbolic Power (Book review)
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In: Applied Linguistics (May 2021), pp. 1-8 (2021)
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Interrogating the construct of communicative competence in language assessment contexts:What the non-language specialist can tell us
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Standard setting in specific-purpose language testing: what can a qualitative study add?
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How much is enough?:Involving occupational experts in setting standards on a specific-purpose language test for health professionals
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Pattern and particularity in a pedagogical genre ... : The case of an individual teacher ...
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Poststructuralism and its Challenges for Applied Linguistics
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Language Assessments as Shibboleths: A Poststructuralist Perspective
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Language Assessments as Shibboleths: A Poststructuralist Perspective
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Abstract:
The biblical story of the shibboleth is widely cited in language testing as emblematic of the social and political function of language tests. But the meaning of the shibboleth has also been explored within poststructuralism, specifically within Derrida’s discussion of the dilemmas of identity in the work of the German Jewish poet Paul Celan. Derrida discusses language itself as shibboleth, and emphasizes the ambiguity and indeterminacy of the linguistic sign, its ‘undecidability’. This article considers the implications of Derrida’s argument for the area of language testing in order to see what his interpretation of the shibboleth might mean for understanding its practices, typically framed as they are within a modernist paradigm. Examples are drawn from various areas of language assessment, including the use of language analysis in the determination of the claims of asylum seekers. What implications for understanding such assessment practices does a poststructuralist perspective offer?
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/ams052 http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/33/5/564
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Poststructuralism and its Challenges for Applied Linguistics
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Perspectives from physiotherapy supervisors on student-patient communication
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Health professionals' views of communication: implications for assessing performance on a health-specific English language test
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