A Preliminary Study into the Development of an In-house Test for the Identification of Language Needs of EFL Students

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  • 外国語としての英語学習者の言語的ニーズを特定するために教育機関が開発するテストの予備的調査

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  In order to develop in-house test tasks that reflect the content of an institution’s curricula, a preliminary study was conducted by analyzing the linguistic variables of reading passages. The present study focuses on the differences between a commercially produced English proficiency test (TOEIC) that is adopted by the institution and the textbooks frequently used in the classroom regarding the syntactic structure of their reading passages. <br>  The study revealed that the syntactic structure of a commercially produced test and the textbooks are different regarding several aspects which confirms the suggestion that the use of an in-house test is preferable to the commercially produced test for the placement purposes.

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