Consultancy Services

• Any area of applied linguistics as it relates to second or foreign language education
• Language testing, especially language proficiency, its assessment, its implications for practical purposes, and its relevance to curriculum design
• Language policy and language education policy
• Language needs analysis and language audits
• The role of language in industry, law, education, etc
• Language teacher education
• Language curriculum design and methodology
• Language education and inter-cultural attitudes
• The establishment, management and evaluation of language programmes, language departments, and language centres.

 

ISLPR Language Services Pty Ltd specialises in language proficiency assessment and other forms of language testing including in such areas as:

• Language testing
• The development of new tests of all types
• Test evaluation
• Test interpretation
• The use of ISLPR and other tests for such purposes related to proficiency in English and other languages as:
  • Entry to university, TAFE, schools and other educational institutions
  • Measuring general proficiency in English or other languages
  • Measuring specific purpose proficiency in English and other languages
  • Teacher registration
  • Vocational registration
  • Taxi driver accreditation
  • Legal purposes (e.g. ability of plaintiffs or defendants to understand English)
  • Exit proficiency from courses
  • Appropriateness of materials for use at different educational levels or in different streams of ESL classes
  • The use of ISLPR as a framework within which to develop syllabuses or work programmes
  • Any other purposes for which language proficiency is a consideration

 

The International Second Language Proficiency Ratings (ISLPR®) is most commonly used to measure proficiency in English but is equally applicable to any other language learned as a second or foreign language.