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
filling in gaps in sentences or texts
Gap-fill
Guided repetition of some model language
Drill
The class describe pictures of capital cities before listening to a recording on visiting different cities.
Stage of the lesson?
Lead-in
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
A task-type in which learners are given a question and three or four possible answers or options. They choose the correct answer from the options they are given.
Multiple choice
Putting words into groups according to a feature they have in common. What type of the task is this?
Categorisation
Real objects such as clothes, menus, timetables and leaflets that can be brought into the classroom for a range of purposes.
Realia
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
A task-type in which learners are asked to pair related things together, e.g. match two halves of a sentence, or a word with a picture.
Matching task
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
The teacher asks the students - Am I talking about something definite or something possible?
Concept (checking) question
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
A classroom activity in which learners are given roles to act out in a given situation.
Role-play
Moving round the class to discuss or find out something from one classmate after the other. What task type is this?
Mingling
Putting new language into a situation that shows what it means.
The teacher gives the students a history quiz then uses this to introduce the past tense.
Cotextualisation
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
a short piece of writing about a particular subject, that is done at school
composition or
essay
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
The teacher first gives learners a task that requires them to use target language. If this activity shows that the students don't know how to use the target language, the teacher will then present the new language, then give the students another task to practise the new language.
Technique?
Test-teach-test
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