CercleS webinar: Intercultural issues in language testing (18 Mar 2026)
CercleS webinar hosted by the FG Language Testing and Assessment
Intercultural Issues in Language Testing
Presenter: Prof. Jarosław Krajka (Department of Applied Linguistics at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland)
Wednesday, 18 March 2026 at 16:00 CET
The CercleS Focus Group Language Testing and Assessment will host a webinar on the topic of intercultural issues in language testing, presented by professor Jarosław Krajka from the Department of Applied Linguistics at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.
Cultural sensitivity in language assessment – Will GenAI or a human win the game?
While cultural sensitivity of language teaching is taken for granted, with Intercultural Communicative Competence being the central concept of contemporary language pedagogy, much less thought is given to interculturality in language assessment. The question of whether tests should be culturally-neutral or specific, therefore including or excluding for certain groups of learners, is a sensitive one, with underlying motifs of power and social (in)justice. The presentation will showcase the problem, highlighting the ways in which language tests can be made more or less culturally (in)sensitive, based on examples of secondary-school leaving examinations from different Council of Europe countries. On top of that, we will compare the ways in which selected Generative Artificial Intelligence tools manage the task of generating tests in response to specific cultural indicators.
The Zoom link will be made available to members via the newsletter.
A bionote of Prof. Krajka can be found here:
