个人英语水平的能力分组

eign teacher teaching the classes and the partner Korean teacher teaching the same classes. Both teachers will collaborate to determine if grouping the students by ability worked or did not work after the implementation period has expired. Both teachers teach the same group of students and both teachers have been partner teachers in the same classes for five years. Bar graphs illustrating a side-by-side comparison of the paired t-test of both pre- and post ability grouping will show the similarities or differences.

第四章：解决方案——Chapter IV: Solution Strategy

问题陈述——Problem Statement

The problem is mixed-ability students currently enrolled at Exhibit English Academy do poorly on tests, tend to behave poorly, and have a difficult time after leveling up into the next year of schooling.

讨论——Discussion

Properly administered placement tests given to students prior to joining an educational facility can help to alleviate the problems of mixed ability classrooms.

Many private schools separate classes according to student ability (Personal Communication, n.d.). Barber (2007) noted in a study specifically dealing with EFL students from private institutions the practice of ability grouping is usually spearheaded via a reliable criterion-based placement test; one that needs to most certainly match the private school's syllabus. The test cannot be universal, for what works at one school cannot work at another simply because the vast number of different curriculums found in each private school.

Furthering the importance of placement tests, Scrivener (2007) noted the importance private schools needing to provide an accurate and reliable method of selecting students to join a specific course by mentioning levels of students do not necessarily exist. Students are often weaker in some areas of learning, but stronger in others. An effective placement test administered to understand all aspects of a student's abilities helps to place students in classes with others of a similar learning skill-set.

Placement tests are a very useful method of helping educational facilities out students in appropriate levels; thus ensuring students within the facility receive instruction best suited to their skills and competence of the language they wish to learn (Weaver, Jones & Bulach, 2007).

Ability Grouping classes can, and have been met with success.

Proponents of ability mixing believe the process better suited to all students; as the students in both higher and lower level classes feel more comfortable learning material that is better suited to their ability. The students feel more relaxed in class learning with like ability classmates; as each leveled group enables the teacher to structure lessons accordingly to fit the need of the students (Cheng, Shui-fong, & Chan 2008).

Hopkins (2004) noted in his research students placed into classes