Language in education planning: Evaluation policy in Mongolia

Abstract

The drive of this article is to evaluate the capability and service delivery of the English language training institutions and their coordination, according to the findings of the survey. The research incorporated the framework of language planning goals of Kaplan and Baldauf, to perform relative and content investigation. Expressive statistics and examination of study related to language learning and instruction delivered at the secondary schools and the universities have been studied to identify conditions for the English language training. This article focuses on language acquisition planning, especially evaluation policy in Mongolian educational institutions which have the main responsibility to implement the policy. It also discussed the results taken for consideration in language testing considering attaining programs, and goals. For example, every year the proficiency testing is done for more than 3000 freshmen students who are studying ‘English I’ (A2 level), the assessment reveals that more than 90% of them fail. It is then concluded that there is no united and national evaluation policy for English language acquisition planning in Mongolia.