一般社団法人　日本翻訳協会は翻訳の世界標準を目指します。

【プロフィール】
　・バベル翻訳大学院（米国）教授
　サンフランシスコ近くの小さな町サンアンセルモに生まれる。
　カリフォルニア大学で英語と言語学の学士号を取得、ワシントン大学で言語学の
　修士号および博士を取得。学究のかたわらESLの教師として働き、のちに合衆国
　西部において、教員養成にたずさわる。その後、米国務省日本語研究所所長
　（横浜）を務める。国務省の任務をおえたのち、1993年より現在に至るまで広島大学
　で英語と言語学を教授。

●試験審査委員長　Dr. Peter M. Skaer氏よりのコメントです。
Why don't you try taking the Plain Written English Test?
You are probably thinking, "Why should I take this test?" To answer this question, let me ask you a question--have you ever taken an English proficiency examination, such as the TOEIC, TOEFL or "Eiken" exam? All of these tests provide you with very general results, and are usually numerical results which place your assessed skills within a simple framework, from which the only thing you can do is say you are better, generally, in English, than those with a lower score, and not as good as those with a higher score.These kinds of assessments are useful in making only the most modest predictions, and really are not effective gauges to tell you, or a potential employer, for example, what your capabilities, and your limitations, are. Plain Written English Test is quite different. It measures your abilities from four points of view (Cohesiveness, Directness, Economy and Appropriateness) and provides individual scores for each of these views, as well as an overall Readability Index. This index can help to determine whether you have sufficient skills to handle certain language-specific tasks, or whether you need further work in one or more of the four areas of language usage.Each Plain Written English Test is examined and critiqued by a professional English language educator, where you get personalized results which discuss your strengths and weaknesses, and which give you suggestions and guidelines for improvement. So, rather than getting a rather useless "grade" for your language skills, we can provide you with an accurate assessment of both what you do well but what you need to work on, and we can provide some constructive suggestions directly related to your own skills as to how to improve your skills both in the short term, and in the long term. Why not take the challenge?