This Final Report is concerned with the results of the ESLC. Technical aspects of the ESLC are addressed separately in the ESLC Technical Report.
Note that England completed the survey later and results are provided in a separate appendix to this Report. For clarity, no results in the Final Report include England.
This report includes the following sections:
- Chapter 2 describes the tested population: the students, the organisational structure of the education systems and of language teaching,
- Chapter 3 describes the approach to constructing language tests and linking to the CEFR levels. It illustrates the test tasks for Writing, Reading and Listening and provides examples of Writing production; it also discusses the results of students' self-ratings on 16 CEFR-related can-do statements.
- Chapter 4 presents results, globally, by first and second target languages, and by tested language, for each skill.
- Chapter 5 presents the descriptive results of the Student and Teacher and Principal Questionnaires, showing each educational system's status on each estimated index.
- Chapter 6 presents the results of the regression analyses which explore the relation between questionnaire indices and performance on the language tests.
- Chapter 7 offers a brief summary and discussion of the most significant outcomes.
Policy-relevant findings can be found in chapters 4 to 6, and are summarised in chapter 7.
The data underlying the major graphs in this report together with standard errors are provided in the EXCEL file ESLC Appendix all tables chapters 4-5-6.xls , available with this report.