ABSTRACT
Elana Shohamy has a fascination for language and for how people perform what it is that they know in their various languages. Of late, she is particularly interested in ways to assess the totality of what people know how to do in the various languages over which they have control. She has advanced the notion of having language tests that would assess at the same time respondents’ abilities at translanguaging (i.e. their ability to communicate using more than one language as needed; Shohamy, 2011). This is an engaging notion, and one that has not been pursued to any great extent in the past. Our language assessment measures have tended to focus on performance in one language at a time. Fortunately, at present, Educational Testing Service has initiated a project to construct tests that assess communication involving translanguaging (Lopez, Guzman-Orth, & Turkan, 2014).
