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ASSESSING AND TESTING LANGUAGES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES, Testing language…
ASSESSING AND TESTING LANGUAGES
FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
Formative assessment
help teachers to improve and refine their teaching and students
advance their learning and performance.
Summative assessment
given periodically to determine at a
particular point in time what students know and do not know
Assessment
“ assessment is a process of
measuring, and one formal method of measuring is to test”
Testing
serve as a comparable measure of competence
characteristics of tests
Authenticity
Interactiveness
Validity
Impact
Reliability
Practicality
Types of tests.
diagnostic tests
provide information about
students’ weak and strong points
achievement tests
designed to check Whether the students have learned and what they should have been taught.
placement tests
assess in which class/level
prospective students should be placed
proficiency tests
assess the suitability
of students for specific courses
Testing language for specific purposes(LSP)
authenticity of task
inauthentic tasks
multiple choice
Authentic tasks.
listening, reading, writing.
The interaction between language knowledge and specific purpose knowledge.
Public examinations in Legal English
the Test of
Legal English Skills (TOLES)
can now be taken at three levels:
x TOLES Foundationreferring to A2-B1 levels (CEFR),
error correction,
gap filling,
answering questions,
multiple choice,
cloze.
matching,
x TOLES Higherreferring to B1-B2 levels (CEFR),
Gap filling,
open cloze,
re-writing a letter (working on the appropriate register),
answering questions,
true/false questions
Multiple choice.
x TOLES Advancedreferring to B2-C1 levels (CEFR)
complex texts within a legal context, including the explanation of
short extracts from contracts,
extracts from legal text books, legal documents (multiple choice or gap filling
redrafting from “legalese” into modern, plain English,
transformation exercises testing knowledge of word families verb, noun, adjective, etc., of the same root).
International Legal English Certificate (ILEC)
evaluating candidates’ skills in the international legal environment.
confirming competences of the candidates for work while communicating with clients and co-workers.
x providing a positive and beneficial impact on the quality and content of Legal English courses,
x creating an examination, conducted according international standards, which will be fair with respect to all candidates,
x providing the possibility of comparing ILEC results with relevant qualifications.
all four skills are tested
reading,
listening,
writing,
speaking