task 14 -- Communicative approach

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Date Posted: 15:48:23 08/05/03 Tue
Author: M�nica Alvarenga
Subject: task 14

Assessment 14
Class � August 04th to August 08th
M�nica Alvarenga
08/05/2003

Read the text below and say how we can test communicative competence.

Communicative language tests are those, which make an effort to test language in a way that reflects the way that language is used in real communication. It is, of course, not always possible to make language tests communicative, but it may often be possible to give them communicative elements. This can have beneficial backwash effects. If students are encouraged to study for more communicative tasks, this can only have a positive effect on their language learning.
Communicative competence can be tested in all the 4 skills, once they are always connected, you may emphasize one but certainly another one is being used too. The author says that, in testing productive skills emphasis is placed on appropriateness rather than on ability to form grammatically correct sentences. In testing receptive skills, emphasis is placed on understanding the communicative intent of the speaker or writer rather than on picking out specific details. And, in fact, the two are often combined in communicative testing both must comprehend and respond in real time. There is necessarily a subjective element to the evaluation of communicative tests. Real life situations don't always have objectively right or wrong answers, and so band scales need to be developed to evaluate the results.

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