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Date Posted: 07:32:49 08/07/03 Thu
Author: Juliana Pereira Soares
Subject: Task 14

How we can test Communicative competence

The main purpose of a communicative course is to teach students, in order to have them be able to use language adequately depending on the situation they’re exposed to. The emphasis of such a course is on appropriateness of use and on the speaker’s success when transmitting a message. The learner should be able to understand and to make him/herself understood.
Communicative tests should then put the learner in a real life context, and he/she should be tested based on his/her learning purposes. It is important to have language in context and check if the person who is being tested can respond to it appropriately.
So, there won’t probably be one correct answer nor response to these kinds of tests, what matters is if the learners can successfully transmit the message wanted. The teacher can than, work on a scale of what is more, or less adequate to a specific situation.

Bibliography

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

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