How is my level assessed ?
Your level is evaluated throughout your training, but there are three key moments: beforehead, the first class and the last class.
Upstream: each trainee declares his or her level to one of our advisors during a telephone conversation. This level will be checked by the trainer during the first course. At the end of the course, each student can download his or her LILATE from their student account which attests to the level reached.
Benevolence in the evaluation
In every assessment, there is a significant risk of bias, linked to the use of a single assessment tool without taking into account the different skills of each person. Assessments may appear too difficult for some, or too easy for others. This has important consequences on individual response behaviors, and thus biases the evaluation of performance.
In order to compensate for these dysfunctions, the motivation of the person being assessed to put forward his or her skills must be stimulated. Motivating test takers is a major concern for all LILATE examiners, especially since the objective is to produce an individual assessment.
Although the context of a face-to-face assessment is never the same as a school setting, it is important to ensure that respondents are involved in the assessment as much as possible and respond in a relaxed manner to all the tasks and exercises that are proposed to them. The LILATE is intended to be the only benevolent language test.
Knowledge of grammar
Ability to express oneself and be understood
Ability to interact in a specific professional context
Ability to interpret and understand
Mastery of vocabulary
A1 / Beginner: The student begins or can understand and use a few words.
A2 / Intermediate: The student can hold a simple conversation with a few mistakes.
B1 / Threshold: The student can manage in most situations.
B2/Advanced: The student can understand a conversation, give his/her opinion and argue.
C1 / Autonomous: The student expresses himself/herself spontaneously and fluently.
C2 / Mastery: The student understands everything he/she hears and expresses him/herself without effort.
Upstream: each trainee declares his or her level to one of our advisors during a telephone conversation. This level will be checked by the trainer during the first course. At the end of the course, each student can download his or her LILATE from their student account which attests to the level reached.
Benevolence in the evaluation
In every assessment, there is a significant risk of bias, linked to the use of a single assessment tool without taking into account the different skills of each person. Assessments may appear too difficult for some, or too easy for others. This has important consequences on individual response behaviors, and thus biases the evaluation of performance.
In order to compensate for these dysfunctions, the motivation of the person being assessed to put forward his or her skills must be stimulated. Motivating test takers is a major concern for all LILATE examiners, especially since the objective is to produce an individual assessment.
Although the context of a face-to-face assessment is never the same as a school setting, it is important to ensure that respondents are involved in the assessment as much as possible and respond in a relaxed manner to all the tasks and exercises that are proposed to them. The LILATE is intended to be the only benevolent language test.
The skills to be assessed are :
Knowledge of grammar
Ability to express oneself and be understood
Ability to interact in a specific professional context
Ability to interpret and understand
Mastery of vocabulary
This evaluation is based on the CEFR grid :
A1 / Beginner: The student begins or can understand and use a few words.
A2 / Intermediate: The student can hold a simple conversation with a few mistakes.
B1 / Threshold: The student can manage in most situations.
B2/Advanced: The student can understand a conversation, give his/her opinion and argue.
C1 / Autonomous: The student expresses himself/herself spontaneously and fluently.
C2 / Mastery: The student understands everything he/she hears and expresses him/herself without effort.
Updated on: 14/09/2021
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