Categories: All - grammar - meaning - testing - context

by Fred Hathaway 16 years ago

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636 Hadley, 390 -400

Effective language testing should integrate various elements that reflect real-world usage and course objectives. Emphasizing the understanding of meaning within context, tests should be designed to mirror actual communicative scenarios.

636  Hadley, 390 -400

Hadley, 390 -400

Characteristics of test items and Item types

Schema (GRAPH)
horizontal

Divergent, open ended

Convergent (lft)

Vertical

Natural discourse

Single sentences (top)

Intro

Hybrid combines
Artfully combines

structure and situation

grammar and context

focus on communicative use of lang in context
assessing specific features of lang
A basic prin here
washback effect

Students learn much better when they know the test will reauire that they understand meaning!

Also, studnets have to understand meaning to do the task
CR tests focus on lang use in context!

And for real purpose!

General concepts of testing
4 part criteria in profeciency testing

type of discourse

accuracy

context/content

global tasks/functions

decontextualized
Integrative

more than one pt at a time

See Brown
Thesis
ways tests can reflect course goals
Issues of classroom testing