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"Here's a one-word language test to measure whether someone really knows a foreign country and culture: What's the word for doorknob?

By Peter Hessler March 15, 2010 "Here's a one-word language test to measure whether someone really knows a foreign country and culture: What's the word for doorknob?

"No, I don't know," Jake said, and then he added, brightly: "But I know the word for 'door.' " "Here's a one-word language test to measure whether someone really knows a foreign country and culture: What's the word for doorknob?

In his complaint to Ofqual, the whistle-blower – a teacher who has been close to the school – accuses teachers of "inflating grades in the controlled-assessment area of the crucial English language test to the point that they do not reasonably reflect the ability of the students of a significant section of their year 11 (GCSE group) cohort".

For a language test to achieve beneficial impact and positive washback, an examination board needs to understand "the nature of context within educational systems and the roles of stakeholders in those contexts" (Saville 2009, p. 6).

The speech development test for children aged three to five years (SETK 3-5) is the first standardized German language test to examine speech abilities in children of this age group with an immediate correlation between linguistic and auditory memory performance.

The aim of this paper is to compare the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) and language tests to distinguish subtle differences in cognitive performances in two different age groups, namely young adults and elderly cognitively normal subjects.

Government officials have spelt the word "language" wrong in an official press release announcing new language tests to be forced on immigrants.

But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, new citizenship laws required Russians who had arrived after 1945, and their descendents born in Soviet Estonia, to pass Estonian language tests to gain citizenship.

The spokeswoman added that doctors were subject to strict criteria set by the GMC and that if they were from outside the European Economic Area they had to take additional language tests to ensure that they spoke English to a good standard.

Translation is also employed in locally developed language tests to assess learners' ability to reproduce the source text content in fluent and idiomatic target language.