Communicative tests presentation
Communicative language testing is intended to provide information about a test taker's ability to perform tasks using the target language in specific contexts. Developing useful communicative tests presents difficulties like creating frameworks that balance communicative teaching goals with test design principles. Reliability and validity are important, requiring consistent measurement and ensuring the test accurately measures what it intends to. Tips for developing communicative tests include starting simply, focusing on content, considering test impact, allowing for context specificity, and acknowledging the multidimensional nature of language. Examples of communicative tests are information gap activities, letter writing, and note taking.
Communicative tests presentation
- 1. Miguel Guzman Section 002
- 2. What is communicative language testing? Communicative language testing is intended to provide the tester with information about the testee’s ability to perform in the target language in certain context-specific tasks
- 3. Difficulties to develop communicative tests Developing useful assessment instruments Developing a framework which is based on attending to the theoretical requirements of both communicative teaching goals and test design principles It is inevitable that rating communicative tests may be subjective as it is difficult to distinguish right from wrong responses in real life situations.
- 4. Tests requirements Validity is concerned with how well a test measures what it is intended to measure. Reliability is concerned with the dependability of results, or the extent to which performance is consistently measured Practicality means that a test must be practical in terms of financial limitation, time constraints, ease of administration, scoring and interpretation
- 5. Tips to develop communicative tests Starting from somewhere Concentrating on content Working for washback Communicative tests may be context specific Any communicative testing should consider the multi-dimensional nature of language
- 6. Examples of communicative tests Information gap Letter writing Note taking
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