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HOW TO TEST VOCABUARY
Why test anything The obvious answer is that, without testing, there is no reliable means of knowing how effective a teaching sequence has been Testing provides a form of feedback, both for learners and teachers'. Moreover testing has a useful backwash effect: if learners know they are going to be tested on their vocabulary learning, they may take vocabulary learning more seriously. Testing motivates learners to review vocabulary in preparation for a test. It also provides an excuse for further, post-test, review when, for example, the teacher goes over the answers in class. In this way testing can be seen as part of the recycling of vocabulary generally. In fact, the only difference between many recycling exercises and tests is that only the latter are scored. Informal testing of this type is best done on a regular basis. Ideally, in fact, vocabulary covered in the previous lesson should be tested at the beginning of the next one. If not, the chances of retaining the new vocabulary are greatly reduced. 43 Types of tests Multiple choice tasks Here is areview activity from a coursebook that could just as well form an item in a test: Multiple choice tests are a popular way of testing in that they are easy to score (a computer can do it), and they are easy to design (or seem to be). Moreover, the multiple choice format can be used with isolated words, words in a sentence context, or words in whole texts. Here, for example is a 'word only' example: Here, on the other hand, is a contextualised multiple choice test: Gap-fill tasks - Gap-fill tests require learners to recall the word from memory in order to complete a sentence or text. Thus they test the ability to produce a word rather than simply recognise it. The best-known example of this test type is the Download 0.75 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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