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Integrative Approach & Communicative Approach - Coggle Diagram
Integrative Approach &
Communicative Approach
Language Testing through Communicative Approach
The integrative approach is intended to provide an authentic language environment for learners to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in a meaningful context.
The integrative approach builds new learning upon students' prior knowledge.
This approach focuses on learning as a process in which learners will be provided with ample opportunities to understand and practice concepts that are presented to them
Errors are treated as part of the learner's learning process
Teachers provide a low-anxiety environment that allows learners to take risks
Corrections are made through modeling from teachers or peers
Principles of testing in the communicative language testing
There is a need to make test items that adress a definite audience for a purposeful communicative intent (goal) to be envisioned
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
ere is a call for test items contextualization .
Test instructions and scoring plans should touch on effective, communication of meaning rather than on grammatical accuracy
Language Testing through Integrative Approach
This approach involves the testing of language in context and is thus concerned primarily with meaning and the total communicative effect of discourse. According to Oller (1983), if discrete items take language skill apart, integrative tests put it back together; whereas discrete items attempt to test knowledge of language a bit at a time, integrative tests attempt to assess a learner’s capacity to use many bits all at the same time.
The Characteristic and Types of Tests of Integrative Approach
Integrative tests are concerned with a global view of proficiency.
Integrative testing involves functional language but not the use of functional language.
The use of cloze testing, dictation, oral interview, translation and essay writing are included in many integrative tests.
This approach involves the testing of language in context and is thus concerned primarily with meaning and the total communicative effect of discourse.
Strength
This approach can view students’ proficiency with a global view.
The approach to meaning and the total communicative effect of discourse will be very useful for students in testing.
Dictation,another type using this approach, was regarded solely as a means of measuring students’ skills of listening comprehension.