Conceptualising language learning and use and its assessment in global contexts

Setting the scene : the situated nature of language learning In offering comments as we engage in an effort to reconceptualise the nature, goals and outcomes of the learning of additional languages, we foreground our own situatedness in Australia, working as researchers, curriculum and assessment developers, and teacher educators in languages education in Australian education. We see Australia itself as connected in a global, networked world and as a multilingual and multicultural society wit...