Volume 1, Issue 1 July 2018, pp. 3–8 
Articles
Then and now: Themes in language assessment research
Lia Plakans 
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1 The University of Iowa, USA 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29140/lea.v1n1.35
Abstract
This short reflection considers major themes in language assessment research in two years across a decade, 2007 and 2017. The themes were selected after reviewing three major journals in language testing. Each theme will be described and discussed along with comparisons between the two years.
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© Lia Plakans
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Suggested citation
Plakans, L. (2018). Then and now: Themes in language assessment research. Language Education & Assessment, 1(1), 3–8. https://doi.org/10.29140/lea.v1n1.35
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