ENGLISH TEST ONLINE - ABCILITY

Theoretical background

English language skills are an indispensable requirement for most professions today. Although the level of language proficiency required varies widely, few people can avoid communicating or receiving information in English altogether in their professional lives.

ABCILITY measures reading comprehension within the language competence of English as a foreign language. This means that information presented must be correctly understood and correctly completed or rephrased, for example. Based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR: Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)), the reading competencies are tested at three levels (A / B / C) from the possible active (writing & speaking) and passive (listening & reading) skills in the present English test ABCILITY. The classification of the level of participants takes place over correct solving of items on the corresponding level. For each level, both lexical and grammatical definitions are available according to the CEFR, thus a an assessment can be made on the basis of the (correct) answers given. Due to the construction of the procedure according to the CEFR, no explicit grammar or vocabulary queries are necessary, as comprehension within a context is tested directly. In order to cater for a wide range of occupational groups and settings, ABCILITY offers a wide variety of contexts (travel, instruction, culture, work communication).