1. Belgin Aydın Meral Melek Unver
Global Scale of English (GSE) Based English Proficiency Test:
Anadolu University Case
Belgin Aydın Meral Melek Unver

2. School of Foreign Languages
Our Student Profile
100% TMI
100 % EMI
30% EMI
AIM: to provide our students with the necessary skills and strategies that will help them to cope with their departmental studies conducted in English, German, French and Russian .

3. Background of the study
Inconsistency in the perception of PROFICIENCY
Problems in Testing
Trained experts
Sufficient sources
Practical difficulties in testing
Contextual difference
Face-to-face Interviews with the
Other FL Schools
Experts in the field
Literature

4. Global Scale of English (GSE)

5. Do we NEED to teach this outcome?
Which MATERIALS do we need?
How much TIME do we need to teach ?
Do we want to TEST this outcome?
Our Curriculum Development Process

6. Weeks
Outcomes
GSE Range
Units
Time
Tasks
Lab Tasks
Supplementary Materials
Assessment 6
Can extract essential details from short everyday texts delivered slowly and clearly
43-50
4.2. Listening: Dream jobs
Task 4
Group presentation creating a product or business
Preparing a study set of vocabulary by using Quizlet
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Listening: Extracting details from texts

7. Progressive Assessment
Placement
Progressive Assessment
Proficiency

8. Distribution of Questions (Placement)

9. Distribution of Questions (Proficiency)

10. Operation of the Unit deciding the number of items needed
organization of labor division
submission if items to the unit head
second editing by administration
first editing by unit members
proofreading by other instructors
final editing by administration
Copying and administrating the test
Statistical analyses and further revisions

11. 5 Placement
10 Proficiency
(speaking
+ writing)
Since May 2014

12. Factor Analysis of Proficiency Tests

13. Result Consciousness raising in the teachers and testing unit members
Safer and more secure steps in
Transparency
More reliable and valid tests
Positive washback