Language Assessment in Korea

[Francis Hult]

JoongAng Daily

 

Leave language education to teachers

 

The Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation recently completed the pilot program for the new English proficiency tests, under the guidelines announced earlier this year. No information is yet available as to the outcome of the initial run, how big a budget has been appropriated, and who will be held responsible if the government's plan to launch a national English testing system in 2012 fails.

This plan should be reconsidered unless it proves impossible to find a better solution to the present problems of English education in Korea. No matter how valid, reliable and discriminating the national English test may be, it would not be practical to invest time, energy, effort and money to develop a completely new system.

 

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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2906579

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