Communicative Approach
Based on what I read about this, this approach emphasize on the
language skills of the students through the utilization of real-life
scenario/experiences. It enhances L2 because it is more on speaking
with the given set of criteria to be followed by the teacher as her
guide in assessing the students very well.
It is indeed a helpful approach because it empowers the
communication competencies of the learners like agreeing,
persuading, or inviting since it lays more emphasis and focus on the
notion and function of language communication.
Generally, the main idea of communicative testing approach is
used to measure language learner’s ability to use the target language
in authentic situations.
Integrative Approach
This approach according to these reliable sources views pupils’
proficiencywith a global view. For the part of the teacher, it is easy to
make because it integrates all the competencies of the language
through dictation, cloze test and oral interviews.
As an English teacher in the near future, I am sure that this
approach will be very useful in my quest of improving my students’
skills in knowledge of the world and test structures. Since it is easy to
apply and the instrument is cheap.
Structuralist Approach
Structuralist approach outlooks that language learning is
chiefly concerned with systematic acquisition of a set of habits.
The use and essence of constructive analysis and the end to
discover and measure the learner’s mastery of the separate
elements of the target language such as phonology, vocabulary
and grammar are the main points of this testing approach.
Through this approach, I reflected upon optimizing the higher
order thinking skills of my students and although this kind of
testing is a bit heavy on the part of the teacher, this testing
approach will really enhance the critical language, with its huge
use of reliability and objectivity as the integral part of what this
approach is all about.
Essay-Translation Approach
Essay Translation Approach or the Pre-Scientific stage of
language testing is a kind of testing approach in which no special
skills or expertise is required.
As I observe the description and background of this approach,
it could be used in any level and range of examinees and the
model of tester can easily be modified based on the essentials of
the tests, though it has a heavy literary and cultural bias, I could
still use it in my testing strategies and variations especially in
essay writing, translation and grammar analysis.
These examples are highly used in the assessment phase and even
in the evaluation especially in teaching language and literature since it
measures my students (4) four macro skills namely listening, speaking,
writing and reading skills.
Diagnostic Assessment
This kind of assessment will enable the teacher to meet the
learning needs of the students by providing this type of assessment to
them.
As a future language and literature teacher, in every class that
I will be having, I will make sure to make a diagnostic exam to know
the strengths, weaknesses and to be able to come up with a critical
analysis of what lessons are needed.
Proficiency Test
I will surely use this kind of language assessment and as what I
observed from the cut-out that I was able to produce, it is someone
like the diagnostic examination but the only difference is that it is
done after the lesson, this means that it is for the enhancement of
the learning of the student for that specific lesson.
Achievement Test
It is a test of developed skill and knowledge. I have
experienced this kind of assessment during my elementary and high
school years and our teacher make sure that we review all the lessons
that we tackled to be able to answer the test.
The achievement test for me is a very good way to evaluate
not just what the students learn but as well as the teachers’
performance on how they taught their students.
Questions and Answer
This type of test is a very good way to assess and evaluate the
students’ communication competence. As a 21st century teacher, I
will surely utilize this kind of test technique to my students.
True/False
Ever since from the start, this type of test has always been
used and although it measures the lower level/order thinking, it is still
a helpful tool to measure the knowledge construction on how my
students learn about my lessons specifically in English.
Multiple Choice
This is a kind of test in which I personally apply higher order or
level of thinking by deducing my ideas to the nearest answer and
coming up with the best or the correct answer.
Multiple choice tests are very helpful for me and with that, in
the near future, I will never forget to apply this type and to make it
not just optimizing the knowledge or understanding level but as well
as the higher levels like analysis and synthesis.
Gap Filling and Completion
This type of test is helpful in improving the students’
proficiency in the English language. Though it only touches the
knowledge and understanding level, this test technique practice their
skills in completing the most appropriate answers for the following
gaps or blanks.
Matching
This technique is closer to gap filling and completion as well as
cloze test which are all useful in practicing the students’ skills in the
English language. When I’ll be making my test most especially the
summative one, I will include this kind of test.
Dictation
To be able to test my students competence in listening skills,
the dictation method will be my companion in the near future. The
only thing that I must be consider is the voic, I should make sure that
as the teacher, the voice must be clear and loud enough to be heard
even on the last students at the back.
Cloze Test
The idea of cloze test require the ability of the learners’
understanding about the text and the context of the given essay or
idea of the paragraph, this is very much common on my field as a
teacher in English because I will be teaching second language learners
and with that cloze test is a very helpful test type to empower my
students’ understanding about the language.
Translation
This is a type of test which is for me fun and informative in the
sense that as a language and literature educator translation is needed
in developing the basic skills in English as the second language to be
acquired by my students.
Essay
When it comes to the assessing and evaluating the higher
level thinking skills of the students, essay type of test is indeed
beneficial.
I could also measure how my students organize their thoughts
and their skills in the proper construction of sentences and
vocabulary abilities, through this, criteria must be followed to
appropriately check my students work in essay.
Monologue
Monologue is a type of test emphasizing the measure on the
students’ language and communicative skill. Monologue is
performance based and with this type of test, I would be able to
measure their skills and abilities in pronunciation, pitch and other
important components in speaking.
Transformation test
The utilization of transformation test for me is fun since the
learners of today are more visually oriented, thus, they are more into
learning and remembering more into images.
Transformation type will be a convenient type of test for me
as an English teacher to make my students not just enjoy on the
images conveyed but cope up with what they are now which are
visual learners making them remember more when images and
pictures are filled in in instruction or even in assessment and
evaluation phase.