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3.1.3. Homework Task Thirteen

Imagine you have completed (i.e., taught) the lesson you chose for Homework Task One (A) and you want to make a short quiz (10 min) that will measure what you taught in the class. For this homework task, please write the answers to the seven questions that will help you make test specifications for the test. We have pasted the questions again here:

1) What is the purpose of the test?

2) What sort of learners will be taking the test?

3) What language skills should be tested (reading, writing, speaking and/or listening)?

4) What language elements should be tested (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, speech acts, etc.)?

5) What target language situation is envisaged for the test, and is this to be simulated in some way in the test content and method? (For instance, is this a test of academic French? Of English for international TAs? Of Japanese for hotel workers?)

6) What text types should be chosen as stimulus materials -- written and/or spoken?

7) What sort of tasks are required -- discrete point, integrative, simulated ‘authentic’, objectively assessable? (That is, what will the test-takers do?)

1) What is the purpose of the test? The purpose of the quiz is to check how well students understood the topic of the lesson and what language they learned.

2) What sort of learners will be taking the test? Pre-intermediate and intermediate level of English students.

3) What language skills should be tested (reading, writing, speaking and/or listening)? The quiz will test writing and reading.

4) What language elements should be tested (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, speech acts, etc.)? The text type was scientific article, the language elements to be checked are grammar and vocabulary.

5) What target language situation is envisaged for the test, and is this to be simulated in some way in the test content and method? (For instance, is this a test of academic French? Of English for international TAs? Of Japanese for hotel workers?) The academic English is stimulated in the quiz content.

6) What text types should be chosen as stimulus materials -- written and/or spoken? Written text.

7) What sort of tasks are required -- discrete point, integrative, simulated ‘authentic’, objectively assessable? (That is, what will the test-takers do?) Simulated authentic text and objectively assessable tasks are required for the quiz. In the quiz students will be reading the text and complete tasks such as matching the words with its meanings, True/False, writing a summary of the text.