THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL TESTING OF KNOWLEDGE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The results of the first international testing of English language knowledge for 14 year old students

In May 2008 Know and Can Association and Center RUNI organized the first international testing of English language knowledge for 14 year old students. The project is initiated by SCIO- Czech Republic and more than 17 000 students from Argentine, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Finland, France, Czech Republic and Japan took part in it. 32 schools in Bulgaria declared voluntarily their intention to participate in it. 13 of them were from Sofia, 7 from Blagoevgrad,4 from Veliko Tarnovo, 2 from Ruse, 2 from Stara Zagora and 1 school for each of the following regions: Razgrad, Plovdiv, Kiustendil and Kardjali.

The total percentage of success in Bulgaria is 68 %, which is putting the country in fourth place among all 13 countries that have participated in the survey. The first three places are possessed by Austria (81 %), Finland (72 %), Germany (72 %) and Italy is in fifth place with 64 %.