KAL is suitable for teachers of English in primary, secondary or adult teaching contexts. 
This aims to test the knowledge of language systems that teachers of English need to plan and teach their lessons. The system referred to include lexis, phonology, grammar and discourse seen from the perspective of a teacher’s language knowledge needs. 

Why TKT - KAL

KAL offers candidates a step in their professional development as teachers and enables then to move onto higher - level teaching qualifications and access professional support such as resource books for English language teaching (ELT) and journals about ELT.

TKT KAL consists of four parts

Lexis

• different types of meaning
• Sense relations
• Word formation
• Lexical units
• Register
  

Phonology

• segmental features
• suprasegmental features
• the role of phonology in conveying meaning
• the role of phonology in discourse

Grammar

• form, meaning and use – word classes
• Adverbials – preposition + noun phrase
• Grammatical roles performed by words
• Structural patterns
• Role of contexts in conveying meaning.

Discourse

• Coherence
• Cohesion
• Register
• Distinctive features of common written and spoken genres
• Pragmatic and semantic meaning
• Functions