Congratulations to Xun Yan, who was recently announced as the recipient of the 2024 SAGE/ILTA Best Monograph Award for the recent volume: Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation and Development . This volume, published with co-authors Slobodanka Dimova and April Ginther, describes the language testing practice that exists in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in the language testing and assessment literature. 

Sage, the publisher of Language Testing, in conjunction with the International Language Testing Association (ILTA), sponsors this biennial award for the best monograph in the area of language testing/ assessment.  This award will be given at the Language Testing Research Colloquium in Austria this July.

The committee writes that "With a plethora of research on large-scale standardized tests at national/intentional level, Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation, and Development stands out with its contribution to the field by providing language testing practitioners the knowledge and skills in developing tests that are linked to the specific contexts more efficiently and effectively. . .. The authors’ personal experience in developing and maintaining local tests and the sharing of such insider experience with examples from local operational tests from different contexts make the book very accessible to read and valuable for the intended audiences. "

You can find more information about this award here. 

A hearty congratulations to Xun for this great work!