Problems and Difficulties in Lingua Franca Assessment

English is used as the global contact language among speakers from varied linguistic backgrounds worldwide. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has the largest number of users of English worldwide for all nations and all countries, of whom the vast majority are nonnative speakers. Considering the nature of English as ELF or English as lingua franca, its assessment is one of the most significant challenges to language testing and assessment; that's why in this paper we focused on lingua franca The implications for language assessment are radical: they involve at the very least a reconsideration of the criteria for judging successful performance, as well as a fundamental redefinition of the test construct to include more of what Hymes (۱۹۷۲) called ‘ability for use of language’, general cognitive and non-cognitive abilities not specific to just language. In this study, we are considered the issues related to the challenges and problems of English as a Lingua Franca for language assessment.

کلیدواژه ها:

Lingua Franca ، Contact Language ، Assessment ، Challenge and Problem