LANGUAGE TESTING

APPROACH
FAFA
YAYA
NINI
JIJI
JACJAC
FEATURES OF INTEGRATIVE APPROACH

• Involves the testing of language in context and is concerned primarily

with meaning and the total communicative effect of discourse
• Is often designed to assess the learner’s ability to use two or more skills
together
• Does not separate language skills into neat divisions to improve test
reliability
 FEATURES OF COMMUNICATIVE
TESTS
• Lays more emphasis on the notion and function; agreeing, persuading, or inviting that
language means in communication.
• Used to measure language learners’ ability to use the target language in authentic
situations.
• Considered successful in learning the target language if he/she can communicate or use
the knowledge and skills by way of authentic listening, speaking, reading and writing.
• Accurate reflection of situations as possible.
• Example ; role play.
 FEATURES OF COMMUNICATIVE
TESTS
• Tasks/Situations must resemble real life experiences (in terms of
communication and use of language)
• Test items need to address definite audience
• Test instruction & rubric/marking scheme focus more onto effective
communication of meaning rather than on grammatical accuracy
• Errors are tolerated & treated as a natural outcome of development of
communication skills
INTEGRATING TESTING APPROACH
STRENGTH
• The approach to meaning and the total communicative effect of discourse will be very useful for
pupils in testing
• Can view pupils’ proficiency with a global view.
• Strength of the test; dictation ,writing and cloze test is that relatively cheap and easy to make
WEAKNESSES
• Sometimes teacher should consider the importance of measuring skills based on particular need,
such as writing only, speaking only
• Scoring is not efficient and not reliable.
 COMMUNICATIVE TESTING
APPROACH
STRENGTH
• The tests are more realistic to evaluate the students’ language use, as the students in a role as
though they were to communicate in the real world / daily lives .
• Increases the students’ motivation since they can see the use of language they learnt in class
in the real world.
WEAKNESSES
• Not efficient (time and energy consuming)
• Problem of extrapolation (Weir,1990)(cant guarantee the successful students that
accomplished the task will also be successful in the communication in real life. )