República Bolivariana de Venezuela

Ministerio de Educación Superior

Departamento de Idiomas Modernos

Programa Inglés

Evaluación I.L.E.

Prof. Mirna Quintero

COMMUNICATIVE TESTING:

vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar.

Students:

Héctor Santos

Mitchell González

Simón Veléz

Caracas, 20 de Abril de 2012

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE:

Dell Hymes proposed the concept of communicative

competence. (June 7, 1927,Portland, Oregon–

November 13, 2009, Charlottesville, Virginia)

The basic idea of communicative competenceremains the ability to use language appropiately,both receptively and productively, in realsituations.

Communicative tests are intended to be ameasure of how the test takers are able to uselanguage in real life situation.

Communicative tests are often verycontext-specific.

A communicative language testshould be based on a description ofthe language that the test takers needto use.

Communicative Tests should reflect thecommunicative situation in which thetest taker are likely to find themselves

Characteristics of communicative language testing

Examples of communicative language tests:

Students in a class may listen to alecture, but they later need to useinformation from the lecture in a paper.

In taking part in a group discussion, they need to useboth listening and speaking skill and later have acomprehension assessment evaluation.

Even reading a book for pleasure may befollowed by recommending it to a friend and telling the friend why you liked it.

VOCABULARY TESTING

DIFFERENT VIEWS

DIMENSIONS

The discrete/ embedded dimensión

Discrete: Vocabulary istested as an

independentconstruct. Embedded

Vocabulary istested as part of a larger construct.

SELECTIVE: A TARGETED SET

OF VOCABULARY ITEMS

THE SELECTIVE/ COMPREHENSIVE DIMENSION

COMPREHENSIVE: ALL WORDS IN A SPECIFIC AREA

The context-independent/ Context-dependentdimension

The context-independent: the

context is notnecessary

The context-dependent:The

context is necessary

FORMAT TESTS

1.- MULTIPLE CHOICE2.-MATCHING WORD-DEFINITION3.-SINGLE SELECTION

4.-CORRECTION/EDITING5.-GUESSING MEANING FROM CONTEXT6.-GAP-FILLING

7,. CLOZE8.-TABLE COMPLETION9.-WORD TRANSFORMATION

STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS

Pronunciation testing

INTRODUCTION

ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

INDIVIDUAL SOUNDS

WORD STRESS

SENTENCE STRESS

CONNECTED SPEECH

INTONATION

HOW TO HELP LERNERS WITH PRONUNCIATION

Stress and intonationConnected speechHow to select pronunciation points

REFERENCES

Kelly,G.2004. How to teach pronunciation.Harlow: Pearson Education.

Underhill,A. 2005. Sound Foundations,Second edition. London: Mcmillan.

O’Connor, J.D., and C. Fletcher. 1989. Sounds English: Pronunciation Practice Book. Harlow: Pearson Education.

Burkhard Dretzke. 1998. Modern British and American English Pronunciation.

Glayol Ekbatani (2001) Measurement and

Evaluation in Post-secondary ESL

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!