Standardised Testing of Academic Language Competence in Non-Philology Students

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Authors	VACEK Jiří
Year of publication	2007
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Písemné zkoušky z cizího jazyka a SERR
MU Faculty or unit	Language Centre
Citation
Field	Linguistics
Keywords	standardised testing; academic language; nonphilology students; language testing; Standardised Language Certificate
Description	Teaching and testing foreign languages at non-philology universities. Suggestions for Standardised Testing in compliance with the CEFR for languages. Structure of non-philology language course at Masaryk University, Faculty of Education, Brno. Structure of non-philology language examination tests. Call for closer co-operation of language teachers and examiners. Suggestion for a Standardised Language Certificate indicating the appropriate level of the student language competence (B1-C2) acknowledged throughout non-philology university departments both in the Czech Republic and at twinned universities abroad.
Related projects:	Interventions into the proces of pedagogical skills development in student teaching at training school