Approaches to language testing meeting # 04
- 1. APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TESTING Testing & Assessment, 4th Year Haider Al-Mansury Meeting # 04 10/29/2017
- 2. Discrete-Point Testing Integrative Testing Communicative Language Testing Performance-Based Assessment
- 3. REFLECTION “The whole of the communicative event was considerably greater than the sum of its linguistic elements”???? Currently, test designers are challenged in their quest for more authentic, valid instruments that stimulates real-world interaction. Why??
- 4. DISCRETE-POINT TESTING What is assumption on which the discrete-point test constructed? What is the drawback of the discrete-point tests? Examples
- 5. INTEGRATIVE TESTING “Language competence is a unified set of interacting abilities that cannot be tested separately”. What is Integrative test? Examples of Integrative tests? What is the Unitary trait hypothesis? What is the take of UTH on the discrete-point tests? What are the contentions on the Unitary trait hypothesis?
- 6. COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TESTING The emphasis on language test performance and language use. Authenticity Language competence Strategic competence ?
- 7. To measure language proficiency …. Account must now be taken of: where, when, how, with whom, and why language is to be used, and on what topics, and with what effect.” COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TESTING
- 8. PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT What does the performance-based assessment involve? What are the short comings of such assessment?? “Higher content validity is achieved because learners are measured in the process of performing the targeted linguistic acts. ???? What is the characteristic of performance-based assessments? How are learners measured in interactive tasks? Example of performance-based assessment?
- 9. WORKS CITED • Brown, H. Douglas. Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices. White Plains, NY: Pearson/Longman, 2010. Print.
Editor's Notes
- #6: Examples: cloze and dictation
- #7: Intended purposes Strategic competence: the ability to employ communictive strategies to compensate for breakdowns as well as to enhance the rhetorical effect of utterances.
- #8: What are the challenges that the communicative language testing presented?
- #9: It involves: oral production, written production, open-ended responses, integrated performance, group performance, and other interactive tasks.