Language Assessment of the Literacy Level of Ethiopian EFL Instructors: A Focus on South West Ethiopian Public Universities

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate Language Assessment literacy (LAL) level of EFL instructors who are teaching communicative English language courses in three South West Ethiopian public higher educational institutions.
 Approach/Methodology/Design: The employed a descriptive research design, which involves quantitative data gathering tool. Accordingly, questionnaire was used collect the appropriate data. target population 42 Male and 9 female totally 51 were Communicative Skills Jimma university, Wollega university Mizan Tepi universities, all these chosen as samples through comprehensive sampling technique
 Results: For measuring instructors’ assessment level, an Literacy Test (ALT) consisting 59 items with eight components given for instructors. There score test rests between minimum 26 maximum 44.
 Conclusions: Though their performance is average low some overall above average.