Grade Range: High School through Adult
Administration: Individual or Group
Time: Approximately 2 hours 15 minutes

The Comprehensive English Language Test (CELT) has earned an excellent reputation as a valid and reliable instrument for measuring English language proficiency for English as a second language (ESL). It is especially appropriate for high school, college and adult ESL programs at the intermediate and advanced levels.

• Features and Benefits

  Listening, Structure and Vocabulary tests measure important dimensions of second language learning.
  
  Each section is of sufficient length to yield reliable results.
  
  Authors are experienced test writers in the field of ESL.
  
  All items were pretested on large samples of students of diverse language backgrounds enrolled in intensive, college-level and high school ESL programs.
  
  
  
  

• Normative Information

  Student Percent-Correct Scores may be referenced against normative data for several reference groups:
  
  • Foreign students admitted to an American university ESL program;
  • Adult ESL students attending a language upgrading program in a community college;
  • Francophone ESL students from Quebec;
  • High school ESL students;
  • Adult ESL students in an intensive language institute;
  • Adult non-native speakers accepted for academic work.
    
    
    
    

• Components

  The Examiner's Instructions and Technical Manual contains instructions for test administration, a discussion of the procedures used in developing parallel forms, and norms for six different reference groups.
  
  Separate, reusable Test Books for each of Forms A and B contain all three sections of the test. Two parallel forms may be administered in alternate years for placement purposes or as entry and exit tests within the same semester.
  
  Answer Keys include built-in table for easy conversion of number of incorrect and omitted items expressed in a percentage correct score.
  
  One C-60 Cassette is designed for the Listening section of each form.

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