Assessment types
When learners go to a language school, the school may want to know what level the learners are. They give them a test to decide what level of class the learners should go into.
Placement test
A group of words or phrases which are about the same topic or subject; "storm, rain, wind, cloud"
Lexical set
Guided repetition of some model language
Drill
The smallest sound unit which can make a difference to meaning
Phonemes
In this approach language is used to learn school subjects.
CLIL
Learners take this test to see how good they are at Language.
Proficiency test
The way in which an individual learner naturally prefers to learn something: auditory, visual, kinaesthetic, etc
Learning styles
Putting words into groups according to a feature they have in common. What type of the task is this?
Categorisation
Pronouncing part of a word (syllable) louder and longer than other parts. umBRELLa
Word stress
In this approach students need to become aware of chunks of vocabulary. Grammar is less important than vocabulary.
Lexical approach
Learners give feedback on each other’s language, work, learning strategies, performance. What assessment is this?
Peer assessment
The typical things about a learner or learners that influence their learning, e.g. age, L1, past learning experience, learning style.
Learner characteristics
A task-type in which learners are given parts of a sentence and are asked to add a missing part using specific target language, e.g. At the weekend, I love … ; In the evenings, I enjoy … .
Sentence completion
Two words which are different from each other by only one meaningful sound (or phoneme), e.g. hit /hɪt/; heat /hiːt/.
Minimal pairs
A way of teaching in which the teacher presents language items in instructions and the learners have to do exactly what the teacher tells them, e.g. Open the window. Stand up.
TPR
Students thake a test/exam at the end of a term or a course to see how well they've learnt the contents. They get marks or score. What type of assessment is this?
Achievement assessment or
Summative assessment
To listen to a text and understand the general meaning of it, without paying attention to specific details
Listening for gist
Moving round the class to discuss or find out something from one classmate after the other. What task type is this?
Mingling
How many phonemes are there in the word IMPACT?
6
In this approach language must be analysed in order to learn it. Both L1 and L2 are used.
Grammar-translation method
A progress test at the end of a part of a course is this type of assessment. A teacher gives feedback on students' strengths and weaknesses
Formative assessment
These are skills such as remembering information and understanding information. They are often used in the classroom to check understanding and to review learning
LOTS (Lower Order Thinking Skills)
Activities usually done at the end of the lesson to give further practice in target language or to consolidate language from a text
Extension tasks
How many phonemes are there in the word DISTRACTED?
10
A way of teaching in which the teacher gives learners meaningful tasks to do. After this the teacher may ask learners to think about the language they used while doing the tasks, but the main focus for learners is on the task itself.
TBL