Employers in English-speaking countries are increasingly requiring evidence from non-English speaking background professionals seeking employment in fields for which they are academically qualified that they can demonstrate a high level of proficiency in English, such as is represented by an IELTS band score of . The purpose of this study was to investigate the likelihood of non-English speaking background undergraduate students who had met the English language proficiency requirements for study at an Australian university on the basis of an Overall score of in the Academic module of the IELTS Test with a in Writing, being able to.
