Re: 15 - Wrong number. this is number 14 -- Communicative approach

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Date Posted: 13:51:36 08/08/03 Fri
Author: Juliana Coelho
Subject: Re: 15 - Wrong number. this is number 14
In reply to: Juliana Coelho 's message, "15" on 13:49:36 08/08/03 Fri

>Traditionally, language tests aim testing knowledge
>about language, usually vocabulary and grammar. A
>communicative test should test not only accuracy, but
>also appropriacy. Their objective is to measure how
>students are able to use language in real life
>situations. In testing writing or speaking, for
>example, the emphasis is on the appropriate use of the
>language, not only on accuracy. In testing listening
>or reading, for example, the emphasis is on
>understanding the communicative intent of the speaker
>or writer. The skills are often combined in
>communicative testing. It is hard to find a completely
>communicative test, but many of them have at least
>some element of communicativeness. Communicative tests
>are also context-specific, as their aim is to make the
>situation as real as possible. There is a subjective
>element to the evaluation of these tests.
>Communicative language tests make an effort to test
>language in a way that reflects real communication.

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