Assessment of Language Proficiency

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the educational and vocational uses of language tests and assessments;
• key theoretical constructs which underpin language assessment;
• a range of current professionally produced language assessment schemes, relevant to your professional practice.
• a range of techniques for the assessment of particular language skills;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• take appropriate ethical issues into account in professional activity.
• identify, select and draw upon a wide range of academic and professional resources, printed and electronic;
• use information technology appropriately to support professional activity;
• communicate professional and research ideas.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• distinguish among different forms and purposes of language testing, and design assessment schemes which are fit for purpose
• assess language learners’ performance in a reliable and valid manner.
• apply assessment theory in analysing and critiquing current language tests
• design and trial new instruments for assessing a range of language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing)

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.