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Tran, Thu H. – Online Submission, 2012
The vast majority of second language teachers feels confident about their instructional performance and does not usually have much difficulty with their teaching thanks to their professional training and accumulated classroom experience. Nonetheless, many second language teachers may not have received sufficient training in test development to…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Language Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Coniam, David – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper examines the quality of tests that Hong Kong teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) produce for their own EFL students. The paper examines the effects on graduate teachers of a language testing programme where participants produced objective tests, proceeding through the stages of test specification, moderation, and item…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Objective Tests, Test Reliability, Item Analysis
Meara, Paul – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
Two kinds of objective tests are discribed which are fairly easy to construct and which stress overall language ability and language predictability. Cloze tests involve filling in passages from which every nth word is missing; noise tests the interpretation of recordings on which noise is superimposed. (RM)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Language Instruction, Language Tests, Objective Tests
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Celce-Murcia, M.; And Others – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Language Instruction, Language Tests, Measurement Objectives
Robinson, Peter – IRAL, 1970
Tests which the foreign language competence of the learner are the chief focus of the discussion, and the following aspects of such tests are discussed: purpose level, type, selection, form, gradation, order, number of items, administration of test, correction, and validation. (FB)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Evaluation, Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels
Toben, Michael – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1974
Some of the pitfalls in the construction of multiple choice tests are discussed and examples of invalid questions given. (RM)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Objective Tests
FAULKNER, JAMES C.
A BRIEF HISTORY IS GIVEN OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECTIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TESTS FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, FROM 1916 TO THE PRESENT. THERE IS A DESCRIPTION OF THE EARLY EFFORTS TO CONSTRUCT OBJECTIVE TESTS AND THE IMPERFECTIONS OF SOME OF THESE EXAMINATIONS. LATER TESTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE IN CURRENT USE, ARE DESCRIBED IN DETAIL, WITH EMPHASIS…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bibliographies, Language Tests, Languages
Mothe, Jean-Claude – Francais dans le Monde, 1975
Addresses modern language teachers, especially of French, on the notions of objectivity and subjectivity, and the problems of testing knowledge. Specific written and oral measures are discussed, and a glossary of testing terms is provided. (Text is in French.) (MSE)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, French, Language Instruction, Language Tests
VALETTE, REBECCA M. – 1966
AUDIOLINGUAL TEACHING METHODS HAVE CREATED THE NEED FOR NEW TESTING TECHNIQUES IN THE FOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS OF LISTENING, SPEAKING, AND WRITING. VARIOUS CURRENT METHODS AND SPECIFIC STANDARDIZED TESTS FOR EVALUATING EACH OF THE SKILLS, INCLUDING PURE SKILLS TESTS WHICH UTILIZE ONLY ONE SKILL IN BOTH STIMULUS AND RESPONSE AND HYBRID SKILLS TESTS…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Audiolingual Skills, Language Research, Language Tests
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Pfister, Guenter F. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1977
Testable objectives in foreign language learning are abilities of comprehension, expression, reading, writing and cultural recognition. These activities are discussed and test designs presented that allow teachers to measure accurately students' progress toward these goals. (CHK)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Skills, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension
Kitao, S. Kathleen; Kitao, Kenji – 1996
Testing English listening skills involves a variety of skills. Sounds are sometimes difficult to discriminate in a language that is not one's native tongue, so testing phoneme discrimination, the ability to tell the difference between sounds, is important. Picture choice items are a good way to select among alternatives to demonstrate…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Moeslein, Kurt – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1975
Reports on experience with objective FL tests (multiple choice, fill-in and completion). Native speakers of the mother tongue and the target language cooperate in developing the tests, developed at the Herder Institute, which are used for placement by ability and as the starting point for teaching exercises. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Educational Diagnosis, Language Instruction, Language Tests
THORNTON-SMITH, C.B. – 1967
MOST OF THE CRITICISMS OF TRANSLATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOL LANGUAGE COURSES FOCUS ON THE SUPPOSEDLY DIFFICULT PROBLEMS OF SELECTING, USING, AND GRADING TRANSLATION TESTS AS OPPOSED TO THE OBJECTIVE TESTS GENERALLY USED BY ADVOCATES OF AUDIOLINGUALISM. BUT MOST OF THESE CRITICISMS FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE PROCESS OF LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE…
Descriptors: Grading, Language Instruction, Language Tests, Objective Tests
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Hirvonen, P. A. – System, 1977
Defends the use of multiple-choice language tests against Pickering's criticism in a previous issue of this journal. (CHK)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Language Instruction, Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests
OSMAN, NEILE – 1965
READING AND WRITING SKILLS CAN BE TESTED OBJECTIVELY WITHOUT USING TRADITIONAL TRANSLATION TESTS. WHEN READING FRENCH, STUDENTS NEED TO RECOGNIZE WORDS IN BOTH UNINFLECTED AND INFLECTED FORMS TO ATTACH MEANING TO WORDS IN CONTEXT, AND TO REACT TO THE MEANING IMPLICATIONS OF FRENCH SENTENCE STRUCTURE. WHEN WRITING FRENCH, THEY NEED TO PRODUCE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Diagnostic Tests, French, Group Testing
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