Unit i 3 Cours Co rse dev evelopme ment
First meetings One of our first considerations when meeting our students for the first time will be to make an assessment of what they know and what they need to know. You will find suggestions in many reference books for initial level testing of students followed at a later date by a needs analysis. However it makes more sense, particularly if you are working 'In company' with a large (50+) number of students to carry out both of these at the same time. If you test for level first and put your students into groups, then in the first lesson do a needs analysis with your group, you may find that 20 students need one thing and only two need another, whereas in the second group the situation is reversed. Therefore it is more efficient to undertake the needs analysis after the level test but before you group the students, so that you can make up your groups on the basis of what they need and their level.
What level test should we use?
What we are trying to ascertain here is their level of English proficiency, rather than any specific business knowledge. Therefore any General English level test will suffice, providing it is graded, i.e. gets progressively harder.
What levels do these tests show?
Again there are many different level descriptors used by different testing systems, we will adopt a five level scale as follows: Q Q Q Q Q
Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Lower Advanced Advanced
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