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Kim, Woo Hyung. “A Study on the Development of an English Ability Assessment Tool for Level-differentiated English Education.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 41.1 (2015): 203-226. The purpose of this study is to develop an English ability assessment tool for level-differentiated English education. This study also suggests the English ability assessment tool to help the placement of the 1st grade students in appropriate levels for common basic English courses, such as Academic English and Communication English. To examine the reliability of the English ability assessment tool, two pilot tests were conducted to find the correlation between the test scores of the English ability assessment tool and the simulated TOEIC scores in 2013. Based on the positive results from the correlation analysis, 2363 participants who had attended Academic English courses took the English ability assessment tool in order to find the correlation with the English SAT scores in 2014. The strong correlation(r=.721, p<.01) from the analysis indicates that the English assessment tool can be used as a placement exam for the 1st grade students. Therefore, this paper suggests that if the English ability assessment tool is well developed and places the students in a proper English level, the lst grade students will learn English more effectively through level-differentiated English education.