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LANGUAGE TESTING - Coggle Diagram
LANGUAGE TESTING
THE INTEGRATIVE APPROACH
CHARACTERISTIC
This approach involves the testing of language in context and is thus concerned primarily with meaning and the total communicative effect of discourse.
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The use of cloze test, dictation, oral interview, translation and essay writing are included in many integrative tests.
PRINCIPLES
Language should not be taught in the discrete chunks of reading, writing, speaking and listening, but as a whole
For language skills to develop, students need to be exposed to large amounts of language that is interesting and useful to them
If students use the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing naturally in the process of solving problems and completing tasks, they will develop these skills better than if the skills are isolated
STRENGTHS
The approach to meaning and the total communicative effect of discourse will be very useful for students in testing.
A model cloze test used in this approach measures the reader’s ability to decode ‘interrupted’ and ‘mutilated’ messages by making the most acceptable substitutions from all the contextual clues available.
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Dictation another type using this approach, was regarded solely as a means of measuring students’ skills of listening comprehension.
WEAKNESSES
Even if many think that measuring integrated skills is better, sometimes there is a need to consider the importance of measuring skills based on students’ need, such as writing only, speaking only, etc.
EXAMPLES
Comprehension of items testing a words and the particular ability to use them grammatical correctly structure
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