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Language Assessment - Assessing Writing by EFL Learners
- 1. Language Assessment Assessing Writing EFL Learning
- 2. Genres of Written Language 1. Academic Writing 2. Job-related Writing 3. Personal Writing
- 3. Types of Writing Performance 1. Imitative ▫ Genre : Personal Writing ▫ To produce writen language ; the learner must attain the skill (basic tasks of writing letters, words, punctuation, and brief sentences). ▫ Includes the ability to spell corectly and to spell perceive phoneme-grapheme correspondences in the English spelling system. 2. Intensive (controlled) ▫ Strictly controlled by test design 3. Responsive ▫ Genre : Academic Writing ▫ Require learners to perform at a limited discourse level, connecting sentences into a paragraph and creating a logically connected sequence of two or three paragraphs 4. Extensive ▫ Genre : Academic Writing ▫ Successful management of all the processes and strategies of writing for all purposes. Writers focus on achieving a purpose, organizing and developing ideas logically, using details to support or illustrate ideas, etc
- 4. Micro- and Macroskills of Writing • Microskills apply more appropriately to imitative and intensive types of writing tasks. • Macroskills are essential for the successful mastery of responsive and extensive writing.
- 5. Designing Assessment Tasks • IMITATIVE WRITING ▫ Basic training in and aseessment of imitative writing : The rudiments of forming letters, words, and simple sentences. • Tasks in (Hand) Writing Letters, Words, and Punctuation ▫ Copying ▫ Listening cloze selection tasks ▫ Picture-cued tasks ▫ Form completion tasks ▫ Converting numbers and abbreviations to words • Spelling Tasks and Detecting Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences ▫ Spelling tests ▫ Picture-cued tasks ▫ Multiple-choice techniques ▫ Matching phonetic symbols
- 6. Designing Assessment Tasks • INTENSIVE (CONTROLLED) WRITING Its also be thought of as form-focused writing, grammar writing, or simply guided writing. Display writing as opossed to real writing • Test Type : ▫ Dictation and Dicto-Comp ▫ Grammatical Transformation Tasks ▫ Picture-Cued Tasks ▫ Vocabulary Assessment Tasks ▫ Ordering Tasks ▫ Short-Answer and Sentence Completion Tasks
- 7. Designing Assessment Tasks • RESPONSIVE AND EXTENSIVE WRITING Test Type : ▫ Pharaphrasing ▫ Guided Question and Answer ▫ Paragraph Construction Tasks ▫ Strategic Option
- 8. Test of Written English (TWE) • Is one of a number of internationally available standardized tests of writing ability. • Gained a reputation as a well-respected measure of written English, and a number of research articles support its validity.