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Download full textAli Hashemi; Samran Daneshfar – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2018
The International English Language Test System (IELTS) is one of the most reputable English tests that is used to assess the language proficiency of those who intend to study or work in an English speaking context. It is one of the most largescale proficiency tests which affects the lives of many students, as well as immigrants as the results of…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Testing Problems, Language Proficiency
Direct linkHamid, M. Obaidul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
Globalized English proficiency tests such as the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) are increasingly playing the role of gatekeepers in a globalizing world. Although the use of the IELTS as a "policy tool" for making decisions in the areas of study, work and migration impacts on test-takers' lives and life chances, not…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Language Proficiency
Al-Issa, Ali; Al-Bulushi, Ali; Al-Zadjali, Rima – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Proficiency in the English language has been described as central for determining Non-Native English Speaking Teachers (N-NESTs) selection for joining the profession. The Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman decided to set the score of Band 6 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) for accepting the English Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Selection Criteria, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Coombe, Christine; Davidson, Peter – Language Testing, 2014
The Common Educational Proficiency Assessment (CEPA) is a large-scale, high-stakes, English language proficiency/placement test administered in the United Arab Emirates to Emirati nationals in their final year of secondary education or Grade 12. The purpose of the CEPA is to place students into English classes at the appropriate government…
Descriptors: Language Tests, High Stakes Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Buell, James G. – 1992
This paper discusses research conducted in the spring of 1991 that measured the relationship of reading subtest scores to teacher ratings of students' reading abilities. Sixty-eight advanced-level students in an intensive English program took an institutional version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and a specimen reading…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Content Validity, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
