Fourteenth Task -- Communicative approach

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Date Posted: 06:19:35 08/07/03 Thu
Author: J�nio Caldeira V�tor de Abreu
Subject: Fourteenth Task

Read the text "Testing Communicative Compentence" and say how we can test communicative competence.
At the first sight, it is necessary we define what is the main aim of communicative tests.
According to kitao & Kitao - "Testing Communicative Competence": "Communicative tests are often very context-specific. A test for testees who are going to British universities as students would be very different from one for testees who are going to their company's branch office in the United States. If at all possible, a communicative language test should be based on a description of the language that the testees need to use. Though communicative testing is not limites to English for Specific Purposes situations, the test should reflect the communicative situation in which the testees are likely to find thenselves. In cases where the testees do not have a specific purpose, the language that they are tested on can be directed toward general social situations where they might be in a position to use English."
On the other side, we need to use tests which simulate real life communicative situations rather than on how reliable the results are, and real life situations don't always have objectively right or wrong answers, and so band scales need to be developed to evaluate the results. Each band has a descriptions of the quality (and sometimes quantity) of the receptive or productive performance of the testee.

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