Assessment and Testing in English For SP

ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP)
“ASSESSMENT AND TESTING IN ESP”
By:
Group 5
1. Aldo Novanda
2. Elviyasa Gaberia S.
3. Nurlaisa
4. Putri Liana Fransiska
ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM

STATE COLLEGE FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES (STAIN)
CURUP
2015
Assessment and Testing in ESP
A. Assessment
Assessment is a process of measuring, and one formal method of measuring is
to test. Assessment is the systematic collection, review, and use of information about
educational programs undertaken for the purpose of improving learning and
development. Assessment is central importance. Every teacher has an interest in
knowing whether, and to what degree, his/her teaching has been successful.
1. Principles of Assessment
According to Tracey Hall, et al., (2009, pp. 2) “not all students are alike.”
Therefore, in order to best promote learning and to give a valid picture of individual
achievement, the assessment process should incorporate the following principles:
 Assessment process should be planned and communicated to learners and parents
prior to instruction;
 Assessment strategies must align with the prescribed curriculum objectives and
with the teaching strategies used;
 Assessment must be fair and designed to enable each student to demonstrate the
full extent of their own learning;
 Assessments should measure how well students learn as well as what they have
learned;
 Assessment instrument should be highly varied in type; assessments should cover
a full range of instructional objectives including knowledge, skills, and affective
items;
 And set personal achievement goals; students must receive clear instructions for
improvement in what they have learned as well as how they learn.
B. Testing
ESP tests are related in content, themes and topics to particular disciplines,
and involve a higher degree of language specificity. ESP tests are more concerned to
present learners with tasks that involve them in reading, listening to, speaking or
writing the target language, and evaluating how well they can do this. Of course, an
important component in assessing how well somebody can use English is how
accurately they can produce or understand texts written or spoken in the language, but
the key to this assessment is to present learners with tasks that resemble in some way
the sort of things they may have to
In ESP there are three basic types of test, they are:
a. Placement Test
Placement tests are used to place learners’ in the ESP course most suited to
their neeeds. The placement test is dagnostic, indicating how far and in what
ways the learner fall short of the proficiency level. The placement tests are
normally comes at the beginning of the course. Placement tests are usually comes
in the form as follows:
o Reading test (cloze passages)
o Listening test (note-taking)
o Quickly & sufficient reliable for group students
o Short-written exercises
b. Achievement Test
Achievement tests are used to know how well the learner in keeping up
with the syllabus and can be administered any time through the course. These are
basic principles in constructing good ESP achievement test(Heaten,1975,
Oller,1979):
o The form of the test must based on what the ESP teacher have taught to the
lerners.
o The test must measured what the ESP teacher want to test.
o The test must avoid bias, for example the test contain of specific cultural or
religion knowledge. This test of course may result bias because every learner
come from different background of culture and religion.
c. Proficiency Test
Proficiency Tests are used to know whether or not the student can cope with
the demands of a particular situation, for example, study at a university of reading
technical manuals. Proficiency test for specific purpose should be able to give a
reliable indication of whether a candidate is proficient enough to carry out the
task that will be required.
A good test will automatically have beneficial effects on classroom
instruction. Other variables such as teacher competence, motivation and
innovation, the climate of the school, socioeconomic status of pupils and teachers
combine to exert an equally important influence on what goes on in an ESP
classroom.
C. Conclussion
Assessment is a process of measuring, and one formal method of measuring is
to test. Assessment is needed in order to know whether, and in what degree, the
teaching of ESP has been successful. Instrument used in assessing ESP learners is
test. ESP tests are related in content, themes and topics to particular disciplines, and
involve a higher degree of language specificity. ESP tests are more concerned to
present learners with tasks that involve them in reading, listening to, speaking or
writing the target language, and evaluating how well they can do this. There are three
kinds of test in ESP, they are :
a. Placement Test
b. Proficiency Test
c. Achievement Test
A good test will automatically have beneficial effects on classroom instruction.
Other variables such as teacher competence, motivation and innovation, the climate of
the school, socioeconomic status of pupils and teachers combine to exert an equally
important influence on what goes on in an ESP classroom.

References
Hutchinson Tom and Waters Alan. English For Specific Purpose. 1987. Cambridge
University Press.
Evans Dudley and John St. Assessment: Continous Assessment and Testing. 1998.
Published Journal.

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ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP)

“ASSESSMENT AND TESTING IN ESP”

ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM

Assessment is a process of measuring, and one formal method of measuring is

educational programs undertaken for the purpose of improving learning and

development. Assessment is central importance. Every teacher has an interest in

achievement, the assessment process should incorporate the following principles:

 Assessment process should be planned and communicated to learners and parents

with the teaching strategies used;

full extent of their own learning;

 Assessment instrument should be highly varied in type; assessments should cover

a full range of instructional objectives including knowledge, skills, and affective

improvement in what they have learned as well as how they learn.

the sort of things they may have to

In ESP there are three basic types of test, they are:

in the form as follows:

o Reading test (cloze passages)

o Listening test (note-taking)

o Quickly & sufficient reliable for group students

basic principles in constructing good ESP achievement test(Heaten,1975,

come from different background of culture and religion.

the demands of a particular situation, for example, study at a university of reading

reliable indication of whether a candidate is proficient enough to carry out the

task that will be required.

A good test will automatically have beneficial effects on classroom

instruction. Other variables such as teacher competence, motivation and

combine to exert an equally important influence on what goes on in an ESP

Assessment is a process of measuring, and one formal method of measuring is

kinds of test in ESP, they are :

A good test will automatically have beneficial effects on classroom instruction.

important influence on what goes on in an ESP classroom.

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