Skill Tests
1. Oral production tests
- overall conversational fluency
- pronunciation of a particular subset of phonology
2. Listening-comprehension tests
- concentrate on a particular feature of language
- overall listening for general meaning
3. Reading tests
- cover the range of language units
- test comprehension of long or short passages, sentences, phrases & words
4. Writing tests
- open-ended form with free composition spelling
- discourse-level competence