What are some possible uses of the PLAB?
Possible uses of PLAB scores include: helping to identify “foreign language learning disabled” students helping to understand a students cognitive skills relevant to language learning helping to understand why a student is performing poorly in a foreign language course helping to identify gifted students developing profiles of students strengths and weaknesses to inform language teaching seeing how students perform relative to national norms developing local norms now and develop uses for the scores after norms are established • creating “expectancy tables” to show the relationship between language aptitude scores and grades in foreign language classes.
