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Plassmann, Sibylle; Zeidler, Beate – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
Language testing means taking decisions: about the test taker's results, but also about the test construct and the measures taken in order to ensure quality. This article takes the German test "telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule" as an example to illustrate this decision-making process in an academic context. The test is used for university…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Wiseness, Test Construction, Decision Making
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Šajgalíková, Helena; Breeze, Ruth – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This article deals with university language teaching in the perspective of its shift from linguistic competence towards communicative competence, and presents some aspects of the underlying process. It analyses the findings from a survey conducted within the Leonardo project "Transparency in the Acquired Language Competences" (TALC;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communicative Competence (Languages), College Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction