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The Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) Assessment is a standardized test of English in use for academic purposes. It is designed to describe the level of English language of test takers planning to study in English-medium colleges and universities.

The CAEL Assessment tests ability to use English. It allows test takers to experience what it is like to participate in a Canadian post secondary classroom.

The CAEL Assessment is a topic-based performance test comprised of an integrated set of language activities. Test takers read articles, listen to a lecture, answer questions and write a short essay - all on one subject.

The language tasks and activities in the CAEL Assessment are systematically sampled from those which are commonly undertaken within the academic community. The content for the tasks on the CAEL Assessment is drawn from introductory university courses, at times when professors are introducing new topics to their students, with the expectation that the students know little about the content.

Developed in 1987 by the Language Assessment and Testing Research Unit (LATRU) at the School of LInguistics and Applied Language Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. The CAEL Assessment was developed in response to requests from faculty and a motion of the University Senate to provide an alternative to other standardized tests.