Conference results

Many European countries are introducing or formalising linguistic requirements for the purposes of migration, residency and citizenship, and national governments often require language tests or other formal assessment procedures to be used.
This gave rise to ethical and ideological questions and concerns among many language testing experts. For this reason ALTE – in cooperation with the Council of Europe – decided to write a booklet for policy makers and other experts in the field.More ...

1. conference day

The first conference day was dealing with a thematic block on “Examinations” - Development, Form and Differentiation of Examinations, in cooperation with ALTE. The motto of the day was 'fairness'.More ...

2. conference day

Mit dem Themenkomplex „Herkunftssprachen – Bedeutung und Integration von Herkunftssprachen“, beschäftigte sich der zweite Konferenztag, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Deutsche Sprache. Russisch und Türkisch sind die meist gesprochenen Herkunftssprachen in Deutschland.More ...

3. Posters

In a number of European countries in recent years there has been a shift towards more rigorous conditions for those seeking to apply for citizenship. One of the new conditions for obtaining citizenship is language proficiency. These posters illustrate the situation regarding language and integration.

Germany	PDF, 727 KB
Denmark	PDF, 715 KB
Czech Republic	PDF, 729 KB
Bulgaria	PDF, 721 KB
Italy	PDF, 807 KB
Luxemburg	PDF, 736 KB
Netherlands	PDF, 658 KB
Norway	PDF, 790 KB
United Kingdom	PDF, 864 KB