ABSTRACT
This chapter reports on the intentions and effects of a test of Arabic as a Second Language (ASL). Israel, Arabic is taught to Hebrew speaker's second language, given the large number of Arabs living in Israel Arabic being a language of the Middle East. The Ministry of Education felt the study of Arabic needed a 'push' and that the test provides a useful instrument for providing it. The initial administration of the test, it becomes routine practice in the Israeli education system. It examines the long-range effect of the test and the impact it had in the studies still persists. It provides a feeling of bureaucratic power and control over the system, with an illusion of action and probably an excuse for not taking meaningful pedagogical actions. All teachers complained the Ministry of Education was trying to promote learning introducing and forcing new material into the test and the expecting teachers to teach it.
