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Integrating skills in assessment will benefit from continued investigation as well as creative innovation. It represents an advance from the approach of the past that defined language as four skills plus grammar and vocabulary. Since integration appears in classroom and authentic contexts (Hirvela, 2016), its emergence or reemergence in testing is inevitable. Meanwhile, research must continue to look at the integrated skills construct(s) to better understand how they can best be defined and measured and how scores from assessments of integrated skills can be used.

SEE ALSO: Assessment of Speaking; Assessment of Writing; English for Academic Purposes; Rating Scales and Rubrics in Language Assessment; Task‐Based Language Assessment; Validation of Language Assessments