Proficiency Testing

The World Company provides customized language evaluations in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and other languages.

We specialize in developing language tests that address our clients´ specific testing needs:

• Custom-designed tests to incorporate target language skill areas and tasks.
• Measurement of competence in general language ability and specific language proficiencies.
• Skill, profession or departmentally focused test designs.
• Fast, accurate test results.

Our testing methods concentrate on measuring communicative rather than abstract language abilities. This means that our focus is on determining the ease with which an individual is able to operate in a given sociolinguistic situation. Each test component aims to measure ability in interaction as well as academic language function, allowing for a much better gauge of the individual´s true skills in that language.

The World Company testing scale recognizes nine levels of proficiency from beginner to highly advanced. This scale is applicable to most any language situation and can be tailored to specific company, departmental and situational needs.