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  • Using information and communication technology for assessment in foreign language courses [Elektronski vir]
    Kukovec, Melita
    Assessment of knowledge is the most demanding part of the teaching process for many teachers. Contemporary methods of assessment encourage the use of information technology for testing and more ... objective grading. Teachers can benefit substantially from the existing array of test creators, which in addition to paper, also offer interactive versions of tests. This paper will present the use of two test types: the well established cloze test and a newer version of an integrative proficiency test called the C-Test. A C-Test is based on the concept of reduced redundancy. Tests of reduced redundancy belong to the category of psycholinguistic-sociolinguistic or post-modern tests that were devised as a reaction to the traditionally used multiple-choice language tests. In a C-Test, students' linguistic competence is examined as they restore partially deleted messages using their knowledge of lexis, rules, patterns, idioms and culture. This is extremely useful in placement tests, when compared to different varieties of cloze tests, the most important representatives of the foreign language tests which were originally devised as readability measures. A cloze test creator enables you to use a selected written text and systematically remove every nth word, where n is a number between 5 and 10. Besides this basic form it also provides the possibility of deleting all articles, prepositions, link words, auxiliaries, interrogative pronouns, quantifiers or modal verbs. Students are asked to restore the missing words. The difficulty of the test depends on the proportion of structure and content words deleted. Both types of tests deliver accurate and interpretable results, as they conform to standards and fulfil the quality control criteria of objectivity, reliability and validity. They are therefore valuable tools for a busy and conscientious language teacher looking for an effective way of obtaining information on their students' knowledge.
    Vir: Proceedings of the International Language Conference on the Importance of Learning Professional Foreign Languages for Communication Between Cultures 2010, Faculty of Logistics, Celje, 23 and 24 September 2010 [Elektronski vir] (Str. 1-5)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2010
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 17901320

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