Efforts to better the school Leaving Exams in English of a large African state lead to the belief that schools should do away with them completely. Where this cannot be done, a thorough, systematic evaluation of reading comprehension, structure, and usage should be combined with productive integrative evaluation. (SCC)

The use of a cloze procedure to test reading comprehension in the foreign language learning situation is considered. A modification is proposed: to combine the cloze procedure with the multiple choice test thereby avoiding the need for language production and creating an element of control and flexibility. (SCC)

Theory is important in a practical sense in training EFL teachers. Theoretical principles that should be taught are: linguistics (generative), language in terms of what people do when they use it, language rules and creativity, transformational-generative model, psychological and sociological speech situations, and paralinguistic features. (SCC)

Two approaches to comprehension are described which attempt to probe the students' real understanding of a prepared passage. In the first method, multiple choice questions were asked based on a 400-word passage; in the second method, a variant of the first, questions are separated into comprehension and phrase vocabulary. (SCC)