Competence in English as a Foreign Language Assessment (CEFLA)

The tests are in multiple choice format.

Taken as a whole, the CEFLA tests students' comprehension skills with a view to providing teachers with information on students' linguistic, pragmatic and socio-linguistic competences.

The test is organised into two sections:

Listening and reading comprehension that comprise

• A set of questions at each level that test students’ skills in understanding both specific and global meaning
• texts on a range of text types, language functions, linguistic complexity and topics appropriate for the levels
• texts that draw on the personal, public and education domains