英国文化协会昨天指出，根据最新出炉的IELTS雅思国际英语测验全球排名，台湾英语能力在亚洲14个国家和地区中排名第13，仅略微领先中国大陆。
剑桥大学英语考试院（Cambridge ESOL） 9月公布2008年IELTS雅思国际英语测验全球排名，台湾考生的平均总分小幅进步，从去年5.59分提升为今年5.66分（满分为9分）。
IELTS包含听、说、读、写，以生活化及具实用性考题为主，并分学术组（欲申请国外留学者）及一般测验组（申请移民者）。目前除英国、澳洲、纽西兰、加拿大以及欧洲的教育系统採纳IELTS为英语能力认证指标之外，美国也有许多学校採用IELTS。
Test performance 2008
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Band score information
IELTS is assessed on a 9-band scale and reports scores both overall and by individual skill. Overall band scores for Academic and General Training candidates in 2008 are shown here together with scores for individual skills according to a variety of classifications. These figures are broadly in line with statistics for previous years.
N.B. for place of origin and first language, the tables show the top 40 places and languages, listed alphabetically, not in order of the size of the candidature.
Academic and General Training candidates
The following table shows the split between the Academic and General Training candidature in 2008.
Place of Origin
These figures show the mean overall and individual band scores achieved by 2008 Academic and General training candidates according to their place of origin.
Mean band score by most frequent countries or regions of origin (General Training) First language These figures show the mean overall and individual band scores achieved by 2008 Academic and General training candidates from the top 40 first language backgrounds Mean band scores for most common first languages (academic) Mean band scores for most common first languages (General Training)
Mean band score for the most frequent countries or regions of origin (Academic)
