The Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) offered by the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan (ELI-UM) is a standardized test to measure the English language proficiency of a foreign student.
The MELAB is given in three separate parts – the grammar and vocabulary, listening, and composition sections make up the entirety of the exam. The first part is the Grammar-Cloze-Vocabulary-Reading test that contains a total of 110 questions. Most of the questions are multiple-choice. Students will be grants one hour and twenty minutes to complete this portion of the exam. This section contains questions about vocabulary, cloze passages, American conversational speech questions, and a few reading comprehension passages. For the most part, the questions are evenly split among the various subtopics.
The composition portion of the MELAB gives students 30 minutes to write about a particular essay topic. The student will have a choice of two topics from which they need to craft an essay on one. The basic five paragraph format of an essay should suffice for this 30 minute test.
The last portion, the listening part, asks students a series of sixty questions related to five different types of questions. Candidates will be given headphones and they will have to listen to different types of questions by different speakers. The questions ask the listener to give an answer to the speaker’s question, find the meaning in the speaker’s statement, best explain two sentences of dialogue, choose the meaning of the speaker’s sentences, and answer questions based on a three minute dialogue.
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