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Book Review

Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity

by Fox, Janna & Artemeva, Natasha, Routeldge, New York, 2022, £31.19 (paperback), 10.4324/ ISBN 9781351184571

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