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legalquestions
Joined: 25 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:36 am Post subject: Are your university students level (placement) tested? |
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My university doesn't seperate students into different language ability levels (ie, beginner, intermediate, advanced). There is no level test given to incoming freshmen.
Instead, it places students together based on their academic major. For example, architecture students are lumped together with other architecture students; biology majors with other biology majors, etc.
This creates obvious problems for me, the language teacher, as I have students in each individual class with wildly differing abilities (from near true beginner level, up to near native speaker level).
How does your university handle this - by language ability (level/placement) testing, or by just lumping all the same majors together? Just curious. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:14 am Post subject: Re: Are your university students level (placement) tested? |
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| legalquestions wrote: |
| How does your university handle this - by language ability (level/placement) testing, or by just lumping all the same majors together? |
Both. By majors according to ability (if there are enough students in the major), or simply by major (if not). The problem is, they don't get around to doing the placement tests until 2-3 classes have already been taught, so all my basic intro/syllabus/photo-taking/etc are useless; 80% of the students will be swapped out by class #4. |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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The Freshmen take their freshman English by class.
Electives are done by level. |
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