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"This book addresses contemporary issues on the assessment of plurilingual competence for plurilingual learners. With a focus on both theoretical and practical lenses, it works towards an integrated and holistic evaluation of plurilingual competence. The book provides both theoretical considerations and empirical approaches around how the specificities of plurilingual learners can be taken into account while assessing their various competences. It covers topics relating to learners in a variety of plurilingual settings: from the education of adult immigrants and the assessment of young refugees to the evaluation of the students in school and university and plurilingual competence in foreign language education. Showcasing a wide range of international authors, the book provides cutting-edge research in the domain of foreign, second and heritage language assessment. It bridges the gap between the fields of language policies and research on plurilingual competence and the field of evaluation in language education and in migrants' integration policies. Providing new insights into this highly important issue, this volume will be essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of applied linguistics and multilingualism, as well as those involved in the assessment of plurilingual competence"--