Language Testing, Migration and Citizenship: Cross-National Perspectives on Integration Regimes

What is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world? Should language testing be a part of it? This book addresses the urgent need to develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing than is currently available, to enable widespread discussion of this theme and the concomitant linguistic and cultural requirements.

The policy proposals for civic integration have so far been conducted almost entirely at a national level, and with...