‘A fair go for all?’ Australia’s language-in-migration policy.
As the power of tests lies in their uses, language tests that are used to assess immigration eligibility exercise enormous power. Critical Language Testing calls for exposing the power of tests by examining the intentions of introducing tests and their effects on individuals and society, especially...
| Published in: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 38; no. 6; pp. 836 - 851 |
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