Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book offers historical and theoretical accounts of transnational English language assessment practices as well as the ways in which this phenomenon is taken up by different stakeholders. It offers critical review and outlook pertaining to the ways in which English language assessment practices occur in our contemporary transnational world. The book provides theoretical foundations for a socially and ethically responsible didactic approach to language assessment in the field of language assessment. It engages with English language assessment and issues of power, identity, and knowledge building in a transnational context. The book investigates how English language assessment practices in language teacher education programs are impacted by transnational practices in today's mobile world. It explores how English medium instruction students in transnational branch campuses or English medium writing programs at national universities in non-Anglophone countries engage in meaning making and knowledge building.