diff --git a/orangecontrib/text/tests/test_preprocess.py b/orangecontrib/text/tests/test_preprocess.py
index 0a91a49aa..8a2970fff 100644
--- a/orangecontrib/text/tests/test_preprocess.py
+++ b/orangecontrib/text/tests/test_preprocess.py
@@ -721,5 +721,34 @@ def test_can_pickle(self):
         self.assertEqual(loaded._NGrams__range, self.pp._NGrams__range)
 
 
+class TestPOSTagging(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.corpus = Corpus.from_file("deerwester")
+        self.pp = [preprocess.WordPunctTokenizer(),
+                   tag.SpacyPOSTagger()]
+
+    def test_no_tokens(self):
+        self.assertFalse(self.corpus.has_tokens())
+        tagger = tag.SpacyPOSTagger()
+        corpus = tagger(self.corpus)
+        self.assertEqual(len(corpus.used_preprocessor.preprocessors), 2)
+        self.assertTrue(corpus.has_tags())
+
+    def test_pos_tagger(self):
+        corpus = self.corpus
+        for pp in self.pp:
+            corpus = pp(corpus)
+        self.assertTrue(corpus.has_tokens())
+        self.assertTrue(corpus.has_tags())
+        self.assertEqual(len(corpus.pos_tags), len(corpus.tokens))
+        spacy_tags = corpus.pos_tags
+        tagger = tag.AveragedPerceptronTagger()
+        corpus = tagger(self.corpus)
+        self.assertEqual(len(corpus.pos_tags), len(corpus.tokens))
+        self.assertEqual(len(corpus.used_preprocessor.preprocessors), 2)
+        apt_tags = corpus.pos_tags
+        self.assertFalse(bool(np.array_equal(spacy_tags, apt_tags)))
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/orangecontrib/text/widgets/tests/test_owpreprocess.py b/orangecontrib/text/widgets/tests/test_owpreprocess.py
index 49ccb1229..5c077d1ce 100644
--- a/orangecontrib/text/widgets/tests/test_owpreprocess.py
+++ b/orangecontrib/text/widgets/tests/test_owpreprocess.py
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
 from orangecontrib.text.preprocess import RegexpTokenizer, WhitespaceTokenizer, \
     LowercaseTransformer, HtmlTransformer, PorterStemmer, SnowballStemmer, \
     UDPipeLemmatizer, StopwordsFilter, MostFrequentTokensFilter, NGrams
-from orangecontrib.text.tag import AveragedPerceptronTagger, MaxEntTagger
+from orangecontrib.text.tag import (AveragedPerceptronTagger, MaxEntTagger,
+                                    SpacyPOSTagger)
 from orangecontrib.text.tests.test_preprocess import SF_LIST, SERVER_FILES
 from orangecontrib.text.widgets.owpreprocess import (
     OWPreprocess,
@@ -884,20 +885,21 @@ def buttons(self):
 
     def test_init(self):
         self.assertTrue(self.buttons[0].isChecked())
-        for i in range(1, 2):
+        for i in range(1, 3):
             self.assertFalse(self.buttons[i].isChecked())
 
     def test_parameters(self):
-        params = {"method": POSTaggingModule.Averaged}
+        params = {"method": POSTaggingModule.Averaged, "spacy_language":
+                  POSTaggingModule.DEFAULT_LANGUAGE}
         self.assertDictEqual(self.editor.parameters(), params)
 
     def test_set_parameters(self):
-        params = {"method": POSTaggingModule.MaxEnt}
+        params = {"method": POSTaggingModule.Spacy, "spacy_language": "sl"}
         self.editor.setParameters(params)
         self.assertDictEqual(self.editor.parameters(), params)
 
-        self.assertTrue(self.buttons[1].isChecked())
-        for i in range(1):
+        self.assertTrue(self.buttons[2].isChecked())
+        for i in range(0, 2):
             self.assertFalse(self.buttons[i].isChecked())
 
     def test_createinstance(self):
@@ -907,9 +909,18 @@ def test_createinstance(self):
         pp = self.editor.createinstance({"method": POSTaggingModule.MaxEnt})
         self.assertIsInstance(pp, MaxEntTagger)
 
+        pp = self.editor.createinstance({"method": POSTaggingModule.Spacy})
+        self.assertIsInstance(pp, SpacyPOSTagger)
+
     def test_repr(self):
         self.assertEqual(str(self.editor), "Averaged Perceptron Tagger")
 
+        params = {"method": POSTaggingModule.Spacy, "spacy_language":
+                  POSTaggingModule.DEFAULT_LANGUAGE}
+        self.editor.setParameters(params)
+        self.assertEqual(str(self.editor),
+                         f"Spacy POS Tagger ({params['spacy_language']})")
+
 
 class TestLanguageComboBox(WidgetTest):
     def test_basic_setup(self):