1. República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Ministerio de Educación Superior
Departamento de Idiomas Modernos
Programa Inglés
Evaluación I.L.E.
Prof. Mirna Quintero
COMMUNICATIVE TESTING:
vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar.
Students:
Héctor Santos
Mitchell González
Simón Veléz
Caracas, 20 de Abril de 2012

2. COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE:
Dell Hymes proposed the concept of communicative
competence. (June 7, 1927,Portland, Oregon–
November 13, 2009, Charlottesville, Virginia)
The basic idea of communicative competence
remains the ability to use language appropiately,
both receptively and productively, in real
situations.
Communicative tests are intended to be a
measure of how the test takers are able to use
language in real life situation.

3. Characteristics of communicative language testing
Communicative tests are often very
context-specific.
A communicative language test
should be based on a description of
the language that the test takers need
to use.
Communicative Tests should reflect the
communicative situation in which the
test taker are likely to find themselves

4. Examples of communicative language tests:
Students in a class may listen to a
lecture, but they later need to use
information from the lecture in a paper.
In taking part in a group discussion, they need to use
both listening and speaking skill and later have a
comprehension assessment evaluation.
Even reading a book for pleasure may be
followed by recommending it to a friend and
telling the friend why you liked it.

5. VOCABULARY TESTING
DIFFERENT
VIEWS
DIMENSIONS

6. The discrete/ embedded dimensión
Discrete:
Vocabulary is
tested as an
independent
construct. Embedded
Vocabulary is
tested as part of a
larger construct.

7. THE SELECTIVE/ COMPREHENSIVE
DIMENSION
SELECTIVE: A
TARGETED SET
OF VOCABULARY
ITEMS
COMPREHENSIVE:
ALL WORDS IN A
SPECIFIC AREA

8. The context-independent/ Context-dependent
dimension
The context-
independent: the
context is not
necessary
The context-
dependent:The
context is necessary

9. FORMAT TESTS
STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS
1.- MULTIPLE CHOICE
2.-MATCHING WORD-DEFINITION
3.-SINGLE SELECTION
4.-CORRECTION/EDITING
5.-GUESSING MEANING FROM CONTEXT
6.-GAP-FILLING
7,. CLOZE
8.-TABLE COMPLETION
9.-WORD TRANSFORMATION

10. Pronunciation testing
INTRODUCTION
ABOUT
PRONUNCIATION
INDIVIDUAL SOUNDS
WORD STRESS

11. SENTENCE STRESS
CONNECTED SPEECH
INTONATION
HOW TO HELP LERNERS WITH
PRONUNCIATION
Stress and intonation
Connected speech
How to select pronunciation points

12. REFERENCES
Kelly,G.2004. How to teach pronunciation.
Harlow: Pearson Education.
Underhill,A. 2005. Sound Foundations,
Second edition. London: Mcmillan.
O’Connor, J.D., and C. Fletcher. 1989. Sounds English: Pronunciation
Practice Book. Harlow: Pearson Education.
Burkhard Dretzke. 1998. Modern British and
American English Pronunciation.
Glayol Ekbatani (2001) Measurement and
Evaluation in Post-secondary ESL

13. THANKS FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!