B1 single sentence descriptors / Tuan Sarifah Aini Syed Ahmad, Anealka Aziz Hussin and Ghazali Yusri

Single sentences are commonly used to develop objective questions that are used to evaluate students’ learning progress. It is crucially important to be able to develop objective questions of different difficulty levels consistently. Therefore, B1 Single Sentence Descriptors (B1-SSD) is invented to facilitate instructors who need to construct single sentences that are used for developing objective questions of three difficulty levels at B1 or the intermediate level of English proficiency. To date, there is no descriptors for single sentences found on Google Search. From the studies that have been published so far, there are limited readability formula for single sentences that can be used as guidelines for constructing single sentences of different difficulty levels. Moreover, the studies employ a strenuous process of determining of single sentence readability. Therefore, B1-SSD has specified the features for single sentences of three difficulty levels at B1 or the intermediate level of English proficiency that that are more easily determined. The features can be analysed by using free resources such as the sentence depth by using Enju at http://www. nactem.ac.uk/enju/demo.html and the vocabulary level by using Online Cambridge Dictionary at http:// dictionary.cambridge.org/. B1SSD is significantly useful to facilitate instructors in in developing objective questions faster, more easily and economically. It also has a great potential in developingobjective qu tions for learning assessments and instructional games that have commercial values for a specified target group.