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Language Testing

Language Testing. Testing Reading. What candidate should be able to do. Operation Basic problems  challenge The purpose and the text Conscious skill “Will it be useful to include them in our test?”. Expeditious Reading Operations. Careful Reading Operations. … Make Inferences:

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Language Testing

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  1. Language Testing Testing Reading

  2. What candidate should be able to do • Operation • Basic problems  challenge • The purpose and the text • Conscious skill • “Will it be useful to include them in our test?”

  3. Expeditious Reading Operations Careful Reading Operations … Make Inferences: Unknown word Propositional informational inferences Propositional explanatory inferences Pragmatic inferences e.g: John is Mary’s brother. Who is Mary? It took them 30 minutes by road to get from UPH to SDH Rinjani • Skimming • Search Reading • Scanning

  4. Selecting the tasks • Selecting texts • Select representative sample • Choose texts of appropriate length • Include as many passages as possible • Discrete pieces of information (search reading) • Specified elements to be scanned for • Has a clear structure test • Interesting texts • Avoid general knowledge • Avoid culturally laden text • Avoid using the text that students have read

  5. Writing items • The aim is to measure the ability in which we are interested, will elicit reliable behavior from candidates, and will permit highly reliable scoring. • Possible Techniques • Not adding a significantly difficult task on top of reading • MC • T/F • Short Answer • Identify referents • Predicting the unknown words • F and O • Scanning • Text structure

  6. Gap Filling • Details • Scanning • Summary cloze • Information transfer • Supplying information in a table • Following a route on a map • Labelling a picture • Wordings in test item • Procedures • Careful reading • Tasks to expect candidates performance • Paragraph and line numbers

  7. Advice on item writing • Present items in the order in which the answers can be found in the text • Not to write correct response that can be found without understanding the text. • No general knowledge items • Make items independent of each other • Make minor changes

  8. Scoring • Grammatical error, spelling, punctuation should not be penalized • The function of reading test is to test reading ability

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