—Is it the role of assessment to nurture confidence, competence, and a sense of identity?— In June, I was offered a British Council studentship to head to Helsinki and attend the annual conference of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA). EALTA can claim something entirely unique in the field of language assessment:…

—Exploring the impact of standardised language assessment on relationality in Indigenous-rooted contexts— I was keenly aware after my first cycle of ‘participatory action research’ of two of its major shortcomings: One, no action was ultimately taken; two, the more respectably research-like it seemed, the less participatory it became. The research project ruffled many feathers. I…