task 14 -- Communicative approach

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Date Posted: 19:44:15 08/06/03 Wed
Author: ozana
Subject: task 14

Task 14 - Testing

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

In accordance with the text, Communicative language tests are intended to be a measure of how the testees are able to use language in real life situations. 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. The test should reflect the communicative situation in which the testees are likely to find themselves. Communicative competence can be tested in all the skills. To test communicative competence we can gap activity (listening/speaking) in which two or more testees work together. The task should provide a context in which it is logical for the testees to be sharing information. We can use also a system of band scales. The band scales would emphasize the testee's ability to give and receive information, express and elicit opinions, etc. Also, the activity should be tape recorded, if possible, so that it could be evaluated later and it does not have to be evaluated in real time. A communicative test of listening, for example, would test not whether the testee could understand what the utterance, but place it in a context and see if the testee can respond appropriately to it. Some tests combine reading and writing in communicative situations. Testees can be given a task in which they are presented with instructions to write a letter, memo, summary, etc., answering certain questions, based on information that they are given. Listening and writing may also be tested in combination

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Testing Communicative competence http://iteslj.org/Articles/Kitao-Testing.html

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Re: task 14 -- Vera, 08:06:21 08/07/03 Thu