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About the TEF (Test d'Evaluation de Français)
The TEF is aimed to assess the level of French language of people who are not native French speakers. It is organized by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry. For the first time, this year, the test may be taken in
The TEF is neither a diploma nor a certificate. This means that it is impossible to fail the TEF. The results of the TEF are individual and validated by an official document which, for each section, attests to the candidate's points obtained as well as the linguistic and communication goals reached. The assessment commentaries do not only cover the candidate's linguistic and communication difficulties. They allow him/her also to find out exactly what his/her skills are in French expression and comprehension.
Taking the test:
for whom and why?
The Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry grants a certificate which is widely recognized by business firms and educational institutions. So it makes the studies and the employment easier in all French Speaking institution.
The TEF is approved by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). The test results will be used by CIC as conclusive proof of your language skills.
The TEF includes:
3 Compulsory Sections (2h10)
2 Optional Sections (1h35) Written Expression / Oral Expression
The sections rely on different exercises and activities. For further information, please check the TEF website.
Registration and preparation
Registration offers some possibilities. The compulsory and optional sections can be taken at the same time. Candidates may choose to take one of the optional sections only, or both the same day. They may only take the optional sections as a complement to and within a one year period after having taken the compulsory sections. Beyond this limit, candidates must take the compulsory sections again.
Candidates may get information on the different instructions given in the sections via a candidate's manual sent to them two weeks before each session, along with their convocation. No previous diploma is required for the TEF. The TEF assesses candidates from an elementary to a superior level.
نظرات ()What is TEF?
TEF is a tool designed to assess your proficiency in French. It is a test designed by the Chamber of Commerce of Paris that grants a certificate that is widely recognized by business firms and educational institutions worldwide indicating a proficiency in French. TEF was designed by a team of experts linguists. It derives its validity from the expertise of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the French Language Institute in the fields of education and certification. TEF aims at assessing the fluency in the French language of non native speakers of French. The Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry delivers a certificate featuring the candidate's score, personalized comments, as well as a rating based on the Council of Europe standard grading system.
Why Should I Take TEF?
TEF allows non-French students to demonstrate their fluency in French when they seek admission in French speaking universities or employment or promotion. It allows non-French applicants to
Structure of the TEF test
3 compulsory sub-tests 2 optional sub-tests Written comprehension (1h) Written expression (1h) Listening comprehension (40 mn) Oral expression (35mn) Structure and vocabulary (30mn) (only if sitting the compulsory test) $150 $50 and $50
Cost
The 3 compulsory sub-tests cost $150. The 2 optional tests cost $50 each. TEF registration must be paid at time of registration and is non-refundable, no exception.
What Tests Should I Take?
For Canada Immigration you have to take all the tests. Otherwise, you can take the 3 compulsory tests only or the 3 compulsory tests + 1 or 2 optional tests or 1 or 2 optional tests (only if you took the 3 mandatory tests in the past 12 months).
How long are the results good for?
TEF is valid for 12 months.
How many times may I take the test?
As many as you want, there are no limits.
How long does it take to receive the results?
We usually receive your results from
How to assess your French level? The TEF example
What is the required level of French to study or to follow professional training in
This is a relevant interrogation on a very current subject. Today, many universities, higher education schools, and companies, whether French-speaking or working in narrow relation with a French-speaking institution, are more and more confronted with a thorny question: how to select and/or recruit efficiently a person whose mother tongue is not French? Up to now, the institutions used their own systems of evaluation - when they had one! - and were often surprised : the students’ level was sometimes badly estimated and they were directed to an inappropriate training programme, or else managers did not dispose of sufficient credits or time to estimate the French needs for training of his employees.
Created two years ago to assess proficiency in French, TEF (Test d’évaluation de français) fills therefore an empty space. The Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIP) is a major actor in the field of training and education (13,200 students from pre-high school to graduate and postgraduate levels, and 40,000 participants in continuing education programmes), it is known and recognised internationally for its examinations in French for business and for the professions (8,000 candidates every year in 600 accredited centres in 90 countries).
The CCIP first conceived TEF as an answer to its own needs, for its educational institutions (HEC, CPA, ESCP-EAP, ESIEE, ADVANCIA, NEGOCIA…) which welcome every year 20 to 25 % of foreign students. Considering the good quality of the first results, the CCIP decided then to launch TEF on the international market.On the one hand, companies can use it to make significant personnel decisions (to recruit, to promote, to set learning goals.)
On the other hand, universities and institutions of higher education use TEF to assess the French skills of non-French-speaking students before, during, and after their studies and to assist foreign students more easily and more efficiently with their enrolling in the programme that is best for them.
The finalisation of TEF, which is a standardised test, ready for use, quickly corrected, objective, and reliable, required long working months by a team of specialists in different fields : specialists in evaluation, didactic, teachers of French as a foreign language, statisticians, experts in data processing, examiners, teachers who tested various tests and gave their opinion about them. Certifying that TEF must be an effective tool of evaluation for minimum cost for the candidates, this team of experts selected the most representative tasks, with discernment and coherence, according to the objectives of language assessment. TEF results are personalised and validated by a score sheet giving the examinees their amounts of points for each test section and describing the language and communication objectives they have reached.
Thus, two examinees obtaining an identical amount of points do not necessarily get similar comments: Therefore, it is more important to consider the amount of points obtained in each test section than the total amount of points. This originality represents an important asset of the assessment.
These detailed results and this qualitative assessment establish an accurate evaluation of the examinees’ abilities in French at a certain moment in time. Of course, the more recent the assessment is, the more likely it is to be a valid indication of their proficiency. At the beginning of their learning French, TEF supplies them with a diagnosis on their needs, it then gives precious indications on the progress carried out in the course of learning, and finally it provides the candidates with an official certificate of the level they have reached by the end of their training.
The mandatory part of TEF consists of 150 multiple-choice questions divided into three parts : Reading (50 questions), Listening (60 questions), Vocabulary and grammatical structure (40 questions). This mandatory section lasts approximately 2,5 hours –including the necessary transition time between the different parts. It represents the main part of TEF evaluation. The examinees can then complete the assessment with two optional tests : Writing (1 hour) and speaking (35 minutes).
TEF mainly assesses the examinees on everyday written and oral French, the tasks are based on current subjects, on various levels of complexity. TEF presents a wide variety of supports and tasks. Taking TEF does not require a specific diploma or preparation. However, a manual is sent to the registered candidates two weeks before the test for them to become familiar with the tasks and instructions. Registrations are accepted every month all year long all over the world.
Administrating TEF to students or co-workers demands a simple but rigorous organisation : the conditions of organisation of the test must be equal in all centres to guarantee an identical evaluation to all candidates on an international basis. To this end, the CCIP administers all the conception and correction of the tests (except for the speaking part). Institutions interested in organising TEF sessions or receiving a sample test can contact the CCIP La Lettre du CIES (Centre International des Etudiants et Stagiaires), number 12, september 1998, p. 1
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