
Angela
Hasselgreen is Professor of Language Didactics at Bergen University
College, Faculty for Teacher training, Norway. She has carried out
research and published extensively on the subject of assessing young
language learners (YLLs), in particular investigating the extent
that the CEFR lends itself to be used with this special group. She
has coordinated the ECML’s AYLLIT (Assessment of Young Learner
Literacy) and Bergen ‘Can do’ projects. She is joint coordinator of
a national network of YLL researcher. She headed the team which
designed the current national curriculum for English in Norwegian
compulsory schooling and is also active in the work of developing
the national tests of English in Norway.