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Fundamental considerations in language testing. Retrieved from Īmerican University of Sharjah undergraduate catalogue. Thus standards for classroom assessment of English in Dubai/Sharjah are determined by local schools’ and universities’ policies.Īdmission tests. Standards for evaluation of communication in English involving tasks of jumbled sentences in classroom tests must reflect the language learning goals of the school and community. Also, students applying to English-medium universities in the UAE must meet the required scores on standardized English tests including the IELTS and TOEFL. Schools in Dubai/Sharjah use Inner Circle English varieties of English (e.g., British or American English) as the standard for evaluation, as well as non-native-English-speaker varieties (e.g., Indian English(es)). To determine appropriate assessment standards for English tests in schools in this region, the English language standards for schools and English language requirements for university admission in the UAE were analyzed. Items ranged from being completely decontextualized, non-interactive, and inauthentic to being fully contextualized, interactive, and authentic. To evaluate scrambled sentence test items, eight test item types developed from one jumbled sentence instance (“Want taxi Dubai you?”) were analyzed in terms of interactivity and authenticity. Thus it is seen that jumbled sentence test items can reflect real-world language use. Naturalistic inquiry identified 54 instances of jumbled sentence use in daily life in Dubai/Sharjah, where English is widely used as a lingua franca. However, unscrambling jumbled sentences is a common occurrence in real-world communication in English as a lingua franca. Jumbled sentence items in language assessment have been criticized by some authors as inauthentic.
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