“ELF and EFL Language Assessment: Exploring the Intersection of Language Teaching and Testing”

Abstract

English has acquired the status of Lingua Franca and the people of different L1 use it for communication in every part of the world.  In a status of lingua franca, English facilitate the communication among the people of different lingua cultures. For effective utilization, efforts are underway to shape the teaching/learning approaches/methodologies more effective to ELF. Different techniques and strategies are adopted to make teaching and learning environment useful and free of weaknesses. Assessment in this regard is one of the fundamental factor that can give feedback about the teaching learning environment. In order to determine the main finding and the current trend in language assessment in ELF, 26 research articles has been consulted and reviewed. Research article are studied carefully and the main themes/finding are mentioned in this paper. An understanding developed is that almost all of the researchers are of the belief that ELF requires different types of assessment other than those utilized for the English language exams. Efforts has been made to find   the gap and put some suggestion to bridge the gap regarding assessment of English language as per the requirement of ELF demands.

Keywords: Language assessment, ELF, Language culture, Applied linguists, Native speaker, global language, EFL, Summative assessment, of classroom-based assessment, peer assessment