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    Current situations of Language Testing multiple choice Using mostly written forms testing the vocabulary, grammar structures, reading, writing Less focus on communicative skills oral skills are not assessed Impacts of current ways of Language Testing students learn to the tests reluctant to oral skills of the language language learning becomes tiring and boring. Tests should be able to reflect studentPs general fluency and ability to use the language.

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    Introduction To Language Testing

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    Current situations of Language Testing multiple choice Using mostly written forms testing the vocabulary, grammar structures, reading, writing Less focus on communicative skills oral skills are not assessed Impacts of current ways of Language Testing students learn to the tests reluctant to oral skills of the language language learning becomes tiring and boring. Tests should be able to reflect studentPs general fluency and ability to use the language.

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    Introduction to Language Testing

    Current situations of language testing


    In groups of 4 or 5, discuss the current situations of language testing at schools or language centers.

    Current situations of language testing


      

     

    Multiple choice Using mostly written forms Testing the vocabulary, grammar structures, reading, writing Less focus on communicative skills Oral skills are not assessed

    Impacts of current ways of language tests


    

    Students learn to the tests  reluctant to oral skills of the language Not being able to use the language well especially in communication Language learning becomes tiring and boring since students have to learn lots of vocabulary and grammar structures without knowing how to apply them in real situations. Tests used can not achieve their main objectives.

    WHY TEST?
    What are the purposes of language tests? 1. To measure students performance - individual performance (classroom tests) - for purposes of comparison or selection (external examination) 2. To enable teachers to increase their own effectiveness by making adjustment in their teaching 3. To identify the precise areas of difficulty encountered by the class or by individual students 4. To provide students with an opportunity to show their ability to perform certain tasks in the language 5. To enable students to learn from their weaknesses

    What should be tested?


     

    Testing the language skills Testing the language areas

    Testing the language skills


    Four major skills in communication through language are listening, speaking, reading and writing.  These skills should be carefully integrated and to use for real life communication. There would be no rigid distinction drawn between the four different skills Tests should be able to reflect students general fluency and ability to use the language.
    

    Testing the language skills


    To give some indication of the students scholastic ability in some of the language skills needed as a student, tests of each language skill can be designed

    Testing the language skills


    

    Listening comprehension (short dialogues, talks, lectures ) Speaking ability ( interview, picture description, role play, problem solving task) Reading comprehension (questions and answers, true/ false, multiple choice, matching, etc.) Writing ability (letters, reports, summary, instruction, accounts of past events, etc.)

    Testing the language areas


     

    Grammar and usage Vocabulary (word meaning, word formation, collocations) Phonology (phonemes, stress, intonation)

    Testing Grammar and usage

    To measure students ability to recognize appropriate grammatical forms and to manipulate the structures

    Example
    Choose A, B, C, or D to complete the blanks in the following:
    Although it (1) . Quite warm now, (2) will change later today. By tomorrow morning, it (3) .. Much colder and there may even be a little snow. (1) A. seem B. will seem C. seemed D. had seemed (2) A. Weather B. The weather C. a weather D. some weather (3) A. is B. will go to be C. is going to be D. would be

    Example
    Complete the following dialogue: A: does Victor Lee ? B: I think his flat is close to Tan Son Nhat Airport

    PRACTICE
    Design/Select an English test Present the purpose of the test

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