Overview

 

The Business Language Testing Service (BULATS) is designed to test the language of employees who need to use a foreign language in their work, and for learners and employees on language courses or on professional/business courses where foreign language ability is an important element of the course.

The service provides:

• relevant, useful and reliable language tests in work contexts
• test administration to suit the client company's individual requirements
• rapid turnaround of test results
• information to help the interpretation of test results
• advice to companies on appropriate strategies for language testing, assessing language needs (language auditing) and training.

Language skills are essential to any company working in today’s global economy. The following are just a few of the ways BULATS can provide an indispensable tool for measuring and developing these skills:

• evaluating the language skills of staff within a company
• evaluating the language skills of job applicants
• placing learners on suitable courses for language training
• assessing learners who are unsuitable for the training courses provided
• evaluating language training given
• recommending suitable standard examinations for learners.

 

Here are some examples of companies that already use BULATS.