Communicative testing approach lays more emphasis on the notion and function, like agreeing, persuading, or inviting, that language means in communication. Communicative language testing approach is used to measure language learners’ ability to use the target language in authentic situations. The approach beliefs that someone/ a student is considered successful in learning the target language if she/he can communicate or use knowledge and skills by way of authentic listening, speaking , reading and writing . Communicative language tests have to be as accurate a reflection of that situation as possible. The example of communicative language test is role play. The teacher asks students to do a role play such as pretending that the students come to the doctor, pretending that the students are in the market.
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There is a need to make test items that adress a definite audience for a purposeful communicative intent (goal) to be envisioned (might happen).
Tasks in the test should resemble as far as possible to the ones as would be found in real life in terms of communicative use of language.
Test instructions and scoring plans should touch on effective, communication of meaning rather than on grammatical accuracy.