1. Introduction
1.1 Problem
As part of evaluation for AE students’ marks at Saga University, the native English language
instructors administer a pre and posttest to see how much students have improved over the
course of the semester. The test is comprised of four sections: listening, reading, writing, and
speaking. As the test is the same for all five teachers who teach the AE classes, in spite of the
fact that they use different textbooks with different materials, teach three different levels, and
have varying teaching styles, it could hardly be expected that the test is actually measuring