This paper endeavors to illustrate the past, present, and future of language testing and assessment in applied linguistics through an interview with Associate Professor Dr. Hossein Farhady, who has been working on assessment and language testing both inside and outside Iran more than forty years. In this interview paper, Farhady replied to inquiries regarding language assessment and its effect on teaching, the challenges he had faced in assessment in Iran, his attitude towards online assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the future of language assessment in English as a foreign language (EFL) and English as a second language (ESL) circles. In the end, he provided some pedagogical suggestions for EFL/ESL teachers and researchers about language assessment
