Language Assessment Scales, Level 2 (LAS II) are used to assess the linguistic proficiency of limited-English-speaking or non-English-speaking adolescents. LAS II, like its predecessor, LAS I, provides a picture of oral linguistic proficiency based on a student's performance across four linguistic subsystems: phonemic, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic. It is two independent tests, one in English and the other in Spanish. The phonemic section includes auditory discrimination and phoneme production items. The lexical section consists of words of varying levels of difficulty and with important phonemic features. The method used is identification of a picture. The syntactic section has two parts: (1) the student listens to a sentence and points to the picture illustrating the sentence, and (2) the student listens to a story and retells it in his/her own words. Because of the close connection between cognitive and linguistic development, interpretation of these results must be done by a native speaker and must take into account the age of the student. The pragmatic area is tested by having the teacher rate the student on his/her ability to carry out certain relevant tasks requiring language. The examiner's manual contains the LAS II rationale, instructions for administration and scoring, the examiner's test sheet, a group summary sheet, language samples and notes on LAS II validity. (AMH)