
Constant Leung
Professor of Educational Linguistics at King's College London; expert in language assessment and EAL curriculum development.
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Jun 29, 2026
Language and Assessment Tensions
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Constant LeungGUEST
Uh, perhaps I should really, uh, say that, uh, s- you know, language assessment is, um, one of the, uh, two or three areas that I've been, you know, focusing on over the years.

Constant LeungGUEST
But in relation to assessment, I think it started like this, okay? When I first started teaching years and years ago, I was teaching English as a foreign language at university level, and there the, the notion of language proficiency was actually very constrained.

Constant LeungGUEST
You know, what's English? Well, English is really between the pages of the tests and then the text- international textbooks and things like that, right? Then a little later on when I started teaching in, um, in a high school, uh, when I started working with, uh, students from diverse language backgrounds, but in a regular school curriculum context, right? I realized that the very high status internationally recognized qualifications in English language virtually had nothing to say [chuckles] to what we need to do with the students, you know, in a school environment where English is not a thing that is between the books.
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