Abstract
Linking the educational and business world to the realm of linguistics is no simple task. In this chapter, I present how educational and professional settings in the MENA countries can affect the measures linguists take to evaluate applicants’ performance for employment purposes by dint of a primary trait rubric and why this rubric is not used. As language assessment leads to far-reaching consequences for multiple stakeholders, assessment tool developers should hold themselves accountable for the decisions and interpretations they make based on assessment records from a sample of the test takers’ performance. In this regard, authenticity is one major concern for test developers. Likewise, another equally important concern for test developers is the rubric to be used. In this chapter, after a brief introduction to the MENA region’s educational and professional context, I present the importance of measuring productive skills especially writing, the different types of rubrics in assessing performance and finally the reason why some rubrics can work better in different professional and educational settings where English as a lingua franca (ELF) is employed for communication.
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