Resumen de LADO as a Language Test: Issues of Validity

Tim McNamara, Carolien van den Hazelkamp, Maaike Verrips

• This article brings together the theoretical field of language testing and the practical field of language analysis for the determination of the origin of asylum seekers. It considers what it would mean to think of language analysis as a form of language test, subject to the same validity constraints, and proposes a research agenda.