Communicative testing presentation
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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
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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!
