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Reflect on the questions: 
 
1. What does assessment mean? 
2. Is it necessary to gather information about levels of students’ 
language performance? 
3. Why should we pay more attention to fluency than accuracy 
(language correctness)? 
4. What types of assessment do you know? 
5. What forms of assessment are used in the English language 
classrooms? 
6. Why will the summative and final assessment give us 
evidence about the FLT results?
7. What types of tests do you know? 
8. What format of tests have you learned?

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9. Why is the language portfolio considered as an innovative 
technology? Give your arguments. 
10. 
What components does the language portfolio have? 
 
Activities: 
 
1. A distinction is made between assessment (of learners’ 
performance), evaluation (of innovation or change in, for example, a 
course syllabus) and appraisal (of teachers’ performance). Create 
mind map of “appraisal” and explain interrelations between three 
terms. 
2. Think about criteria teachers which are usually used in 
assessing students’ performance. If you combine different criteria 
would you take into account learners’ effort, motivation and 
progress in deciding on your final grade? Write some examples. 
3. Your teacher gave you a much lower grade for a class 
presentation than you expected. What would you do? 
- Do nothing. Work harder on your next presentation. 
- Complain to someone in authority. 
- During class, ask the teacher to explain your grade. 
- Make am appointment to speak with your teacher outside of 
class. 
4. Go to the site 
http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/pdf/ as/assess-
ment-sample-test.pdf
. Consider the sample test provided at and 
discuss its strengths and weaknesses. 
5. Study the assessing criteria of language performance in 
Discussions. Watch the video-lesson and evaluate students’