Assessing students in EMI courses

Assessment encompasses a number of practices aimed at receiving and providing feedback. It can serve a formative purpose (i.e. monitoring student learning to provide ongoing feedback) and it can also serve a summative purpose (i.e. investigating student learning at the end of a period of instruction, comparing it against a standard or benchmark). In this talk, we will ‘dig’ deeper into the role of assessment in the context of EMI, considering issues such as:
• Are current international assessment tests useful tools for EMI?
• To what extent do language assessment systems need to change (for teachers and students)?
• How can HE institutions benefit form a language policy?