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JAMES E. PURPURA AND JEE WHA DAKIN

The sociocultural, economic, and geopolitical forces in education, the workplace, and in our daily lives have significantly increased the linguistic competencies needed to function successfully in today's world. As language users, we need a range of linguistic resources to understand and express propositions for a variety of purposes in written, spoken, and visual forms to interact and cooperate with others. We also need linguistic resources to establish and maintain relationships, and collaborate in multicultural teams, often online. We need linguistic resources to conduct, navigate, and negotiate everyday transactions. And we draw from the same set of resources to process information, analyze it, categorize it, critically evaluate it to reason from evidence, learn, solve problems, and make decisions. In short, the linguistic resources needed to use a second or foreign language (L2) to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately, while performing tasks that span a variety of topics and contexts, have over the years become increasingly more complex. This complexity in the target of assessment concomitantly presents important challenges for those interested in measuring the L2 linguistic resources needed to communicate in today's world.