Original scientific paper
Official state evaluation of language competences in Hungarian as a foreign language in Hungary
Orsolya Žagar-Szentesi
; Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Two factors make the testing of the
Hungarian language as L2 a particularly current topic in discussions on the
study of Croatian as L2. The first is the continuously growing interest in
learning Hungarian as L2 in the world over the past fifteen years, which
attracts a dynamic and complete development environment for learning,
comprising mainly the methodology of education and well as the measurement of
competence of Hungarian through various test systems. The second is the fact
that through the coming into effect of recent laws in Hungary from September
2006 it is required that Hungarian language certificates on foreign language
competence (e.g.\ state exam) be in line with the \textsc{cef} system. The
paper will briefly describe the process of change from the traditional system
to so called state examining that took place in the last decade of the 20th
century. Its mono-centric regime of evaluation and three levels of language
competence were transformed to a new system fully adapted to European standards
(\textsc{cef}) which now dominates language learning and testing in Hungary.
The paper will also briefly introduce institutional language testing (The
Center for test accreditation, the right for state language testing, e.g.\
accredited place of testing, accreditation of testing program etc.). With more
detail it will discuss criteria for certain competence levels of Hungarian as
L2 in the system of \textsc{cef}.
Keywords
Hungarian as a foreign language; CEF
Hrčak ID:
34726
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2008.
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