Designing Test types for ESP learner

1. Designing Test types for
ESP learner

2. TESTING
ESP tests are related in content, themes and topics to particular
disciplines,and involve a higher degree of language specificity.
ESP tests are more concerned
to present learners with tasks that involve them in reading, listening to,
speaking or writing the target language, and evaluating how well they
can do this. Of course, an important component in assessing how
well somebody can use English is how accurately they can produce or
understand tests written or spoken in the language, but the key to this
assessment is to present learners with tasks that resemble in some way
the sort of things they may have to

3. In ESP, there are three basic types of
test, they are:
PLACEMENT TEST
PROFICIENCY TEST
ACHIEVEMENT TEST

4. PLACEMENT TEST
 Placement tests are used to place learners’ in the
ESP course most suited to their needs. The
placement test is dagnostic, indicating how far
and in what ways the learner fall short of the
proficiency level. The placement tests are
normally comes at the beginning of the course.

5. Placement tests are usually comes in the
form as follows:
Reading test (cloze passages)
Listening test (note-taking)
Quickly & sufficient reliable for group students
Short-written exercises

6. PROFICIENCY TEST
 Proficiency Tests are used to know whether or
not the student can cope with the demands of a
particular situation, for example, study at a
university of reading technical manuals.
Proficiency test for specific purpose should be
able to give a reliable indication of whether a
candidate is proficient enough to carry out the
task that will be required.

7. ACHIEVEMENT TEST
Achievement tests are used to know how well the learner in
keeping up with the syllabus and can be administered any time
through the course. These
are basic principles in constructing good ESP achievement test(He
aten,1975,Oller, 1979):
 The form of the test must based on what the ESP teacher have
taught to the lerners.
 The test must measured what the ESP teacher want to test.
 The test must avoid bias, for example the test contain of specific
cultural or religion knowledge. This test of course may
result bias because every learner come from different
background of culture and religion.

8. A good test will automatically have beneficial effects
on classroom instruction. Other variables such as
teacher competence, motivation and innovation, the
climate of the school, socioeconomic status of pupils
and teachers combine to exert an equally important
influence on what goes on in an ESP classroom.

9. CONCLUSION
 Assessment is a process of measuring, and one formal
method of measuring is to test. Assessment is needed in
order to know whether, and in what degree, the teaching of
ESP has been successful. Instrument used in assessing ESP
learners is test. ESP tests are related in content, themes and
topics to particular disciplines, and involve a higher degree
of language specificity. ESP tests are more concerned
to present learners with tasks that involve them in reading,
listening to, speaking or writing the target language, and
evaluating how well they can do this.

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