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Developing placement assessment in integration training for adult migrants in Finland

2017

As part of integration training in Finland, migrants are provided with Finnish or Swedish language courses. The linguistic objective is to provide migrants with the basic language skills required in daily life. To find the most suitable teaching group for learners in integration training, a placement assessment is carried out. This includes assessment of learners’ current proficiency level in the target language and study skills/experience. In this article we describe a project to develop a national test system for placement assessment (see Ohranen et al. 2015). En Finlande, des migrants adultes suivent des cours de finnois ou de suédois dans le cadre d’une formation pour l’intégration. L’o…