Continuous assessment on Teaching and integrating language skills for the 4th year students (Term 7)
(2023-2024 study year)
Task 1. Define what kind of tests are described here:proficiency; achievement; diagnostic; placement 1. …. tests are designed to measure people's ability in a language, regardless of any training they may have had in that language. It is based on a specification of what candidates have to be able to do in the language in order to be considered proficient.
2. … test are intended to provide information that will help to set students at the stage (or in the part) of the teaching programme most appropriate to their abilities. Typically they are used to assign students to classes at different levels.
3. … tests are used to identify learners' strengths and weaknesses. They are intended primarily to ascertain what learning still needs to take place.
4. … tests are directly, related to language , courses, their purpose being to establish how successful individual students, groups of students, or the courses themselves have been in achieving objectives.
Task 2. Find an example for the specific characteristics of PROFICIENCY TEST:
a) An example of this would be a test designed to discover whether someone can function successfully as a United Nations translator. Another example would be a test used to determine whether a student's English is good enough to follow a course of study at a British university.
b) They are administered at the end or a course of study. They may be written and administered by ministries of education, official examining boards, or by members of teaching institutions. Clearly the content of these tests must be related to the courses with which they are concerned.
c) We may be able to go further, and analyse samples of a persons performance in writing or speaking in order to create profiles of the student's ability with respect to such categories as 'grammatical accuracy' or 'linguistic appropriacy'.
d) They can be bought, but this is to be recommended only when the institution concerned is sure that the test being considered suits its particular teaching programme.
