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<b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">Seminar Series </span></b></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:12pt;color:black;letter-spacing:0.4pt">"Multilingual Assessment: Conceptualizations and Pathways"</span></b><b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;letter-spacing:0.4pt"> </span></b></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:12pt;color:black;letter-spacing:0.4pt">Speaker: Prof Bassey Edem Antia, University of Western Cape, South Africa</span></b><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:12pt;letter-spacing:0.4pt"> </span></b></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:12pt;color:black">Date: Wed 31<sup>st</sup><span> </span>March 2021</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:12pt;color:black">To register:<span> </span></span><span class="x_jsgrdq" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(36, 45, 60)">https://tinyurl.com/8pr4h4a </span></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:12pt;color:black;letter-spacing:0.4pt">Abstract:</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:12pt;color:black;letter-spacing:0.4pt"><span> </span></span><span class="x_jsgrdq" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(36, 45, 60)">Assessment
is currently taking a ‘multilingual turn’ judging by the plethora of ongoing initiatives (conferences, books, special journal issues, organizations, funded research projects) devoted to the subject. However, there is a sense in which conceptualizations of
the concept, its drivers and its operationalization may differ across stakeholder-communities and hinder the development of a coherent and critical body of scholarship. This presentation disentangles conceptualizations of multilingual assessment and surfaces
the language ideological canvas undergirding different conceptualizations. Coupling the foregoing with a reading of the goals to which initiatives in multilingual assessment appear to be responding as well as with a mapping out of implementational opportunities,
the presentation undertakes some conceptual ground-clearing and makes a contribution to what I would like to refer to as multilingual assessment literacies.</span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;letter-spacing:0.4pt"> </span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:12pt;color:black;letter-spacing:0.4pt">Speaker Bio:</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:12pt;color:black;letter-spacing:0.4pt"><span> </span></span><span class="x_jsgrdq" style="margin:0px"><b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(36, 45, 60)">Prof.
Bassey Edem Antia<span> </span></span></b></span><span class="x_jsgrdq" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(36, 45, 60)">is Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His teaching and research
interests span language policy and planning, terminology, multilingualism, health communication and corpus linguistics. Some of his ongoing work is attending to the diversification of languages and language varieties used in teaching, learning and assessment
in higher education; the cultural politics and political economy of language; and the social semiotics of COVID-19. He has also researched the dynamics of terms in pedagogical discourses, the intellectualisation of African languages, and applications of terminology
in a range of contexts (medical and veterinary anthropology, regulatory pharmacy, text analysis, specialised translation, etc.). As a consequence of holding university leadership positions and involvement in several capacity-building initiatives, he intermittently
writes on facets of higher education management. He has authored, edited and co-edited books (Benjamins Press, Amsterdam/Philadelphia); his articles on language education have appeared in journals such as Linguistics & Education, South African Journal of Linguistics
and Applied Linguistics, Language Policy, and the International Journal of the Sociology of Language.</span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;letter-spacing:0.4pt"> </span></p>
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