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What we offer

We develop language courses, language tests and perform language audits to determine the effects of levels of language ability within organisations. Come to us for expertly designed

  • tests of communicative competence in business environments
  • practice tests for prospective university students
  • interventions to boost effective interaction with others
  • the design of discipline-specific tests for academic purposes

Call centres and workplace communication

APLaC – Assessment of Professional Language Capacity

APLaC is a workplace tesLanguage testing for call centres in South Africat of communicative ability (Afrikaans and English; Sesotho test in preparation). Contact us to adapt it to your organisation’s specific needs.

Academic literacy interventions for Grade 11s and 12s

The LCaT Academic Literacy WorkshopWe teach secondary school learners how to prepare for academic literacy tests which are required by most tertiary institutions.

Click to see details of our NBT AQL preparation course.

Emergent and early academic literacy

TEL – Test of Emergent Literacy (for 5-6 year olds)

The Test of Emergent Literacy (TEL) was developed by Sophie Gruhn for her MA at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands, jointly supervised by Dr Nanna Hilton of RUG and LCaT MD Albert Weideman.

TEAL – Test of Early Academic Literacy (for 8-9 year olds)

TEAL was developed by Sanet Steyn, current Academic Literacy Research Lead at UCT.  Her dissertation on the design and refinement of TEAL formed part of her MA (cum laude) in Applied Linguistics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. The test assesses whether grade 5 primary school pupils have the necessary control of language to meet the demands of learning through the medium of English.

Three discipline specific tests of academic literacy

  • ALEF – Assessment of Language for Economics and Finance
  • TAL – Test of Academic Literacy for Prospective Students of Nursing
  • Test of academic literacy for disaster management at postgraduate level

We can develop a test or a language course for your needs.

We take the guesswork out of judgments of language ability.

Thirteen tests of language ability

This a a complete list of tests of language ability which were developed by LCaT MD Albert Weideman together with academic colleagues, teachers, and postgraduate students:

  1. ALEF – Assessment of Language for Economics and Finance
  2. ALLT – Academic Literacy Levels Test (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
  3. ALTSIT – Academic Literacy Test – Singapore Institute of Technology (Singapore)
  4. APLaC –Assessment of Professional Language Capacity
  5. TALL –  Test of Academic Literacy Levels (North-West University, South Africa)
  6. TAG – Toets van Akademiese Geletterdheidsvlakke (Noordwes-Universiteit, Suid-Afrika)
  7. TAGNaS – Toets van Akademiese Geletterdheid vir Nagraadse Studente  – see ICELDA news item
  8. TALPS – Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students (ICELDA)
  9. TAL – Test of Academic Literacy for Prospective Students of Nursing
  10. TEL – Test of Emergent Literacy for 5-6 year olds – see ICELDA news item
  11. TEAL – Test of Early Academic Literacy – see ICELDA news item
  12. TALA – Test of Advanced Language Ability  – see ICELDA news item
  13. Test of academic literacy for disaster management at postgraduate level.