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Reading: 60 minutes 11 Part 1: Reading Correspondence 8 Part 2: Reading to Apply a Diagram 9 Part 3: Reading for Information 10 Part 4: Reading for Viewpoints 8–11 Part 7: Unscored Items Writing: 53 minutes 1 Task 1: Writing an Email 1 Task 2: Responding to Survey Questions Speaking: 20 minutes 1 Practice Task 1 Task 1: Giving Advice 1
In tasks 2 and 4, test-takers read a short passage, listen to an academic course lecture or a conversation about campus life, and answer a question by combining appropriate information from the text and the talk. In task 3, test-takers listen to an academic course lecture and then respond to a question about what they heard.
The Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native speakers. It is intentionally designed to measure the everyday English skills of people working in an international environment.
IELTS One Skill Retake was introduced for computer-delivered tests in 2023, which allows a test taker to retake any one section (Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking) of the test. [ 7 ] IELTS is accepted by most Australian , British , Canadian , European , Irish and New Zealand academic institutions, by over 3,000 academic institutions in ...
The following is a non-exhaustive list of standardized tests that assess a person's language proficiency of a foreign/secondary language. Various types of such exams exist per many languages—some are organized at an international level even through national authoritative organizations, while others simply for specific limited business or study orientation.
Test takers listen to a pre-recorded lecture and answer relevant questions on the same topic as the Reading and Writing components. [12] The lecture is adapted from a first-year university course. The recording is played only once. While they listen, test takers take notes and answer questions related to the lecture. Listening tasks include:
ALTE aims to improve language assessment through sharing best practice and providing thought leadership through international conferences. International conference themes have included supporting the European Year of Languages (2001), the impact of multilingualism (2005), the wider social and educational impact of assessment (2008) and the role ...
A series of validation studies has found that the Versant English Test correlates reasonably with other measures of spoken English skills. For example, the correlation between the Versant English Test and TOEFL iBT Speaking is r=0.75 and the correlation between the Versant English Test and IELTS Speaking is r=0.77.