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Sewell, Andrew – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
A central issue in language testing is the choice of norms, and the need to reconcile notions of "standard" English with local language norms and features. Data from studies of international intelligibility indicate that some features of "standard" language descriptions, based on native-speaker language use, are not essential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Language Tests, English (Second Language)