What is it about?
The English language should not be seen as hanging in the ether. It is a part of English ways of life. Claims that someone knows English without sharing in that life, are in a sense plain misleading.
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Why is it important?
This point is of vital important. Certifying people as competent in English when they might well remain incompetent in 'English-speaking society' is producing brain-drains and motivations that may be almost entirely financial for migrants and so on.
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This article deserves to be extremely widely read.
Dr Jim O Harries
University of Birmingham
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This page is a summary of: Formal Adoption of Wholistic Evaluation of English is Urgently Needed to Avoid Generation of Racism in the West, and Under-Development in Africa, March 2024, IGI Global,
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8526-2.ch005.
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