Arabic language specialists at the Language Centre in the Translation and Interpreting Institute at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU’s) College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) have designed an Arabic language proficiency test (ALPT) to evaluate Arabic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.
This can be used by institutions, organisations, and corporates which employ people whose Arabic language is a required means to run their business.
The speakers and learners of Arabic seek opportunities to utilise their Arabic language proficiency to secure jobs, pursue their education and apply this language for political, diplomatic, and cultural purposes. For various institutions, organisations, and corporations, this situation necessitates measuring the Arabic language proficiency of these speakers as one of their entry requirements or job specification criteria.
The ALPT constructed in the Language Centre is an integrative test of four language skills which measures the ability of Arabic language users in communicating fluently and accurately. The test is geared towards evaluating the language abilities of users at the intermediate and higher levels (advanced and proficiency).
The test consists of four components: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It also includes marking schemes, marking criteria, and pass marks for the rater of the test to mark it easily and reliably.
The listening section of the test consists of two recorded listening comprehension texts and multiple-choice questions. The speaking section requires the testee to speak about one of the two topics provided. The reading section consists of two reading comprehension passages as well as multiple-choice and true-false questions. In the writing section the candidate has to write well-developed coherent passages on two given topics.
The ALPT takes two hours 40 minutes to complete and has a high level of practicality, as it can be administered and marked easily. The test is supposed to be taken in person. Embassies, organisations, and corporations which need to employ Arabic language speakers can apply this test to evaluate the communication abilities of their job applicants. This test has already been applied by an embassy in Qatar as part of the process of employing Arabic language speakers who are required to work in the embassy. The ALPT can be applied by educational institutions as well to measure the proficiency of their students who are at the intermediate and higher levels.
The speakers and learners of Arabic seek opportunities to utilise their Arabic language proficiency to secure jobs, pursue their education and apply this language for political, diplomatic, and cultural purposes. For various institutions, organisations, and corporations, this situation necessitates measuring the Arabic language proficiency of these speakers as one of their entry requirements or job specification criteria.
The ALPT constructed in the Language Centre is an integrative test of four language skills which measures the ability of Arabic language users in communicating fluently and accurately. The test is geared towards evaluating the language abilities of users at the intermediate and higher levels (advanced and proficiency).
The test consists of four components: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It also includes marking schemes, marking criteria, and pass marks for the rater of the test to mark it easily and reliably.
The listening section of the test consists of two recorded listening comprehension texts and multiple-choice questions. The speaking section requires the testee to speak about one of the two topics provided. The reading section consists of two reading comprehension passages as well as multiple-choice and true-false questions. In the writing section the candidate has to write well-developed coherent passages on two given topics.
The ALPT takes two hours 40 minutes to complete and has a high level of practicality, as it can be administered and marked easily. The test is supposed to be taken in person. Embassies, organisations, and corporations which need to employ Arabic language speakers can apply this test to evaluate the communication abilities of their job applicants. This test has already been applied by an embassy in Qatar as part of the process of employing Arabic language speakers who are required to work in the embassy. The ALPT can be applied by educational institutions as well to measure the proficiency of their students who are at the intermediate and higher levels.
