The language(s) used in assessments and evaluations are central to these questions and to crucial wider issues of equity and social justice. Just as in Languages of Instruction (LoI), dominant languages are used in evaluation and assessment, but these are often not familiar languages to the participants.
In March 2024, UKFIET, in collaboration with the British Council, convened an important event in London to highlight the critical yet often overlooked role of language in education.
The conference theme – Education for social and environmental justice: diversity, sustainability, responsibility – is timely and there looks to be remarkable coherence across the four days of sessions with presentations, workshops, posters and symposia responding to the call to rethink education’s role in global and local challenges.
Globally, millions of primary and secondary school children learn all subjects in a language that they do not fully understand. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank have estimated that as many as 80% of learners do not have access to learning in languages they know best. Decades of evidence, mainly…
The 2019 UKFIET conference, 17-19 September, will explore issues through six main parallel themes. Each of these is co-convened by two experts from the Conference Committee. Here they...