ELCB404 Оценка на знанията по чужд език
Анотация:
The course includes
• Theoretical aspects;
• Practical activities (in workshop mode), requiring active participation on the part of the students, as well as independent study activities based on the topics covered and participation in the respective parts of the course.
The course aims to:
• acquaint students with the basic principles and the main aspects of testing in language teaching;
• to raise their awareness about the role of testing in language teaching and learning;
• to provide real-life language testing examples;
• to prepare the students for independent language test analysis.
Преподавател(и):
преп. Светлана Ташевска
преп. Галина Величкова
Описание на курса:
Компетенции:
Having successfully completed the course, students are expected to:
• be familiar with the language testing principles in order to apply them in the classroom;
• be able to analyse test tasks/ tests in correspondence with the theoretical principles.
Предварителни изисквания:
Students should have completed or should have enrolled in and be studying the required language teaching courses.
Форми на провеждане:
Редовен
Учебни форми:
Лекция
Език, на който се води курса:
Английски
Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:
- Introduction. Language teaching and Language Testing, Backwash Effect
- Types of Tests and Exams
- Test Validity
- Test Reliability
- Test Construction: Stages of Test Construction, Test Specification/ Test Framework
- Test Construction: Test Techniques/ Methods and Task Types
- Test Techniques/ Methods and Task Types (Contd.)
- Testing Receptive Skills: Listening
- Testing Receptive Skills: Reading
- Testing Productive Skills: Speaking
- Testing Productive Skills: Writing
- Testing Language Systems: Grammar and Vocabulary
- Evaluating the Test
- Continuous Assessment and Self-Assessment
- Using the Common European Framework for Reference in testing and assessment; Using the Language Portfolio for testing and assessment. The Children’s Language Portfolio and assessing children’s language earning
Литература по темите:
Heaton, J.B. (1975). Writing English Language Tests. London: Longman.
Heaton, J.B. (1990). Classroom Testing. Longman.
Hughes, A. (1989). Testing for Language Teachers, Cambridge University Press.
Hughes, A. (2003). Testing for Language Teachers, Second Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Gass, Susan M. and Daniel Reed.(2011) English language testing. In AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 31–50. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aals.8.04gas.
Lennon, Paul. (2020) Language Testing. In The Foundations of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, 293–322. New York : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429285998-11.
Winter, Tatjana, and Elen Le Foll. (2020) Testing the pedagogical norm. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 8, no. 1: 31–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.20021.win.