Moving through Multi-level Assessment Framework in English for Occupational Purposes: Toward a Curriculum Enactment Approach in Translator Training

In this article, the assessment of more extended, professionally-oriented discourse is approached with a view to introduce a way for the promotion of a type of curriculum for teaching more productive domain discourse with professional rather than academic purposes which fosters transfer of foreign language training across different tasks and situations as well as a deep level of understanding in the situated lesson. To this end, transfer dimensions, that's to say, theory of knowing and learning, levels of relationship to a particular learning environment and function of assessment practice, have been considered in the light of Hickey and Pellegrino's multilevel assessment framework; Shawer's (2010) types of curricula have also been used to align the multiple types of assessment to our curricular and lesson plan approaches and strategies; from there, the author goes on to discuss the implications of such an assessment-based enacted curriculum for translator training courses with occupational purposes. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.