Language Proficiency Testing
BURG ensures your employees or the candidates you’re hiring have the language skills needed for the job. Our comprehensive Language Proficiency Testing program, while rigorous, offers flexibility to meet your specific needs. Talk to a language proficiency assessment expert today.
Are your bilingual employees and potential hires really proficient?
Despite the need for fluency in two languages, bilingualism alone doesn’t guarantee that a person has the specific ability to interpret between two languages.
BURG’s Language Proficiency Testing program helps clients seeking to create a multilingual workforce. Our program tests:
Initial interviews are conducted in the tested language to identify the individual’s level of proficiency in the language. In addition, our subjective rating scales can track an individual’s progress over time, allowing improvement towards language proficiencies.
This test is also available in English for organizations that need to ensure their bilingual employees have sufficient command of English to interact with English-speaking customers effectively.
Founded in 1955, the Interagency Language Roundtable created the ILR Scale to standardize and measure language ability for federal government employees across four communication capabilities:
Each skill has its own level descriptors and is rated from 0 (No Proficiency) to 5 (Functionally Native Professional Proficiency). Plus levels are assigned when proficiency is higher than a base level but doesn’t meet the criteria for the next higher base level.
Take the first step towards ensuring your bilingual employees have world-class language proficiency skills with Language Proficiency Testing. Our tests are designed to measure specific language skills such as:
A variety of our test types are available for use across various industries and professions.
Candidates are tested on their ability to speak and understand the language when spoken.
Written in the target language, the test measures a candidate’s ability to write.
In this test, candidates are evaluated at their skill level based on their ability to read and comprehend the language.
We have gained a deep understanding of the language needs specific to each industry through years of developing and administering language proficiency tests.
The range of industries we work with include government at the state, federal, and local levels, healthcare, non-profits, legal, and financial services.
If you need language testing to ensure that your employees can write, understand or speak a particular language, we’ve got the expertise to help you find the right solution.
BURG’s medical industry language testing ensures your medical personnel and front office staff have the industry specific bilingual skills needed.
With BURG’s legal language proficiency testing, you can be assured of the proficiency of your legal staff and administrative staff who handle foreign language legal documents.
Federal, state and local governments trust BURG for their language proficiency testing. Federal, state and local governments trust BURG’s language proficiency tests which are measured on the ILR scale.
For organizations such as call centers, airlines and others, BURG’s language proficiency testing ensures your bilingual customer service team perform at the linguistic level you need.
BURG works with school districts who have opted into the Seal of Biliteracy program to test oral and written competency for High School students to verify language proficiency.
Not sure where to start? BURG can conduct a job analysis and needs assessment to help you determine the skill level, languages needed, type of language capabilities, and type of testing needed.
Our language proficiency testing solutions can be offered in more than 150 languages. Using BURG Certified linguists ensures the quality of your language proficiency assessments and employee or new hire’s multilingual skills.
Our clients are:
They rely on us to test, report and measure multilingual workforce language proficiency.
Whether you are defining or implementing your language strategy, our unparalleled suite of language testing tools will prove invaluable to your organization.
