Testing the Productive Skills: A Creative Focus for Hybrid Achievement Tests
期刊名称: Foreign Language Annals
作者: Robert M. Terry
年份: 1986年
期号: 第6期
关键词: Achievement Tests;Communicative Competence
(Languages;Comparative Analysis;Evaluation Criteria;Evaluation
Methods;Grammar;Language Proficiency;Language Skills;Language
Tests;Language Usage
摘要:The testing of the mechanics of a cond language is esntially an activity most appropriate to
brief quizzes. The evaluation of mastery at the various stages of language acquisition is more appropriately carried out through the u of creative testing on hybrid achievement tests, which retain certain features of achievement tests and which incorporate proficiency-bad tasks that require authentic communicative language u. Such tests call for the relatively autonomous u of language by the student, the quality of which will be restricted only by the level of study and the language repertoire of the student. Although lip rvice is paid to proficiency-focud instruction, many tests still reflect a sole preoccupation with grammatical accuracy. This paper suggests the incorporation of testing practices that allow
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