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[dsherter]

Hi all,

Can anybody point me to one that I can find online?

Like 'em/Hate 'em?

I have this one - www.fdewb.unimaas.nl/publicrelations/general/contract/english_test.pdf -

which I like well enough but put only so much stock in - perhaps the cumulative information yielded by several tests would be cumulatively helpful....

Also - bigger questions - Diagnostic techniques and/or approaches?

- Important gram. weak spots to assess? Espec. for the great undifferentiated group of "intermediates?

Thanks all for a continued flow of collective wisdom,
A dot in a sea of 20 Mil!

[john_n_carolina]

...this should get you started...pretty decent site, UsingEnglish.com

http://www.usingenglish.com/handouts/index.php

[dsherter]

Thanks, John - that is a good site (I had in fact bookmarked it earlier) espec. for auxiliary material, but it in fact, regrettably, does NOT provide printable grammar diagnostics. Of these there seems to be exactly one available online! You just can't get "there" from "here". :0

Thanks, however, for trying, and for the suggestion of a useful site.

[john_n_carolina]

..true, it is a bit hard to find a site that has real Grammar diagnostics. unless, you subscribe to some of the pay ones.

at this site, www.usingenglish.com ...they're more like handouts...but, i've always been pretty impressed at the amount and quality.

at the bottom of the page, i think there is a megalink page, with about 100 top ESL sites?


you could print out the 400 or so intermediate tests, and tests your student/students this way?

although, as you probably know and most ELSer's know, true language learning is not just the written part. my wife is here in the U.S. now 4.5 years and stills says, "Eyesland", not "Iland"...of course, she knows it's wrong, but she still slips.