The Testing Unit at the Language Centre assesses the language proficiency levels of university staff on a regular basis. We take a task-based approach, focusing on the language skills that individual staff members require to do their jobs effectively. In this way, we ensure that all assessments are needs-related, and that the assessment process has a low threshold. To make the outcome of the assessment are transparent to all stakeholders, we produce a report in which the staff member is given detailed language feedback. We place each staff member into one of the following categories: is fully equipped to perform his or her tasks through English; is quite effective in performing his or her task through English, but would benefit from language support in some specific areas; is in need of immediate language support. We do staff language proficiency assessment for English and Dutch. [click here for an example]
Please contact the testingunit@rug.nl for more information.
