Language assessment encompasses the principles, instruments and procedures used to evaluate individuals’ communicative competence, proficiency and learning progress. It draws on a diverse range of ...

An ad hoc committee will evaluate the different approaches that exist to assess foreign language proficiency and that the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) could potentially use to ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. and LEHI, Utah — IXL Learning, developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people worldwide, announced it has acquired Emmersion, the Utah-based leader in ...

This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the ...

This chapter addresses the issue of assessing the language proficiency and subject matter knowledge and skills of English-language learners. 1 Assessment plays a central role in the education of ...

Shyness can influence a child’s performance in language assessments, depending on the level of social interaction required to complete the test. A recent study from SMU psychologist Sarah Kucker and a ...

Neuropsychological assessment, or cognitive testing, is the gold standard tool for measuring cognitive functions (or the “software” of the brain) such as memory, language, attention, visuospatial ...

IDP has launched a new online English language test which it says will give both English language teachers and students “a more personalised, engaging and enjoyable learning experience”. The Envoy ...

ELSA’s co-founders – language-testing experts Sandy Bhangal, Stephen Carey, Karen Ottewell and Mir Rahman – are hailing the formation of the body as filling a “critical gap in the sector by providing ...