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Sample Test - Coggle Diagram
Sample Test
Sample test 1:
Testing grammar using discrete item texts
Discussion and evaluation
Test 3
learners' understanding of the item and is a kind of
grammar interpretation task
quite easy to turn this test into a grammar production test
Test 2
Classic gap fill type exercise
has to attend to the meaning of the text,
although, since the testee has only three choices of adverb in each case,
chance can play a part in getting the answer right.
this kind of
test is relatively easy to design, and extremely easy to mark, hence its wide
popularity in progress tests of this type.
Form focused rather than meaning focused
Test 1
fairly limited in that it tests only the students' knowledge of the
word order constraints on the three adverbs.
To improve
the validity or this test, need to be supported by an exercise that tests learners'
ability to distinguish the meaning, not only the form of the adverbs
multiple choice exercise, the student has a reasonable
chance of getting at least a third of the answers right purely through random
guesswork
Form focused rather than meaning focused
Sample test 2:
Testing grammar in an oral performance texts
Discussion and evaluation
The teacher has chosen an information gap task in order to simulate the
conditions of authentic language use
One component of these resources is their ability to use the linguistic
system (grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation) for communicative
purposes,
This type or rest, then, has positive backwash effects, in that, in
order to prepare illr it, the students will need practice in interaction skill as
well as in the grammar itself
More problematic is the validity of the scoring system itself and
particularly the weighting given to the different categories
One way improving the of the test is to have different testers
score a sample of the tests,
This kind of test is much more difficult to set up