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TSLB3113 Tutorial Task Topic 3 Week 5: Approaches To Language Testing

The document discusses four approaches to language testing: 1) Essay-translation approach which uses subjective judgment and focuses on literary understanding. 2) Structuralist approach which can objectively measure mastery of language elements like phonology and grammar. 3) Integrative approach which tests without separating skills and takes a holistic view of proficiency. 4) Communicative approach which tests communicative ability through appropriateness over grammatical correctness. It then notes challenges implementing the integrative and communicative approaches in primary ESL classrooms, such as still needing to measure individual skills based on student need, and difficulties achieving communicative competence without grammar mastery or potential cultural bias affecting test

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TSLB3113 Tutorial Task Topic 3 Week 5: Approaches To Language Testing

The document discusses four approaches to language testing: 1) Essay-translation approach which uses subjective judgment and focuses on literary understanding. 2) Structuralist approach which can objectively measure mastery of language elements like phonology and grammar. 3) Integrative approach which tests without separating skills and takes a holistic view of proficiency. 4) Communicative approach which tests communicative ability through appropriateness over grammatical correctness. It then notes challenges implementing the integrative and communicative approaches in primary ESL classrooms, such as still needing to measure individual skills based on student need, and difficulties achieving communicative competence without grammar mastery or potential cultural bias affecting test

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TSLB3113 Approaches to

TUTORIAL TASK TOPIC Language


Testing
3
TASK 1: COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING BLANKS IN THE TABLE BELOW
CONSIDERING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FOUR APPROACHES TO
TESTING. (THE FIRST APPROACH DONE FOR YOU)
Way of Components of Skills aimed to Aim of testing
judgment tests be tested
Essay-writing Writing, reading, Literary
Essay-translation Subjective Translation grammar & usage, understanding of
approach Grammatical Oral & aural skills in language
Analysis later stages
Structuralist Can be measured Tradidtional Listening, speaking, Learners’ mastery of the
approach through the mastery of examinations such as reading and writing separate elements of
phonology, vocabulary essay writing target language
and grammar
Integrative Proficiency Cloze testing and Not separate the Global view of
approach dictation language skills proficiency
Communicative Tests of communicative emphasis is placed on Listening, speaking, to give learners more
approach nature (the ability to appropriateness rather reading and writing control and autonomy
handle the target than on ability to form of their own learning
language) grammatically correct
sentences
TASK 2:
Discuss the challenges of
implementing the integrative and
communicative language testing
approach in primary ESL classrooms.
Challenges of implementing the integrative and communicative
language testing approach in primary ESL classrooms
Integrative

• Even if many think that measuring integrated skills is better, sometimes there
is a need to consider the importance of measuring skills based on students’
need, such as writing only, speaking only, etc

Communicative

• this approach does not emphasize learning structural grammar, yet it may be
difficult to achieve communicative competence without a considerable mastery
of the grammar of a language
• It is possible for cultural bias to affect the reliability of the tests being
administered.

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