SPECIAL ASPECTS OF INSTRUCTION OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGES TEACHERS IN TEST CONSTRUCTING
T. G. Tretyakova
Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, 630126, Russia, Novosibirsk, st. Viliyiskaya, 28
Keywords: преподавательские тесты, оценивание учебных достижений, компоненты коммуникативной компетенции, развитие учащихся, teacher made tests, evaluation of achievement learning, components of communicative competence, developing of learner
Abstract
This article focuses upon special aspects of teaching students of the Department of Foreign Languages to construct teacher-made tests for effective application at school. Teacher-made tests estimate the pupil achievements. Their objectivity improves the learners’ development. The mathematical-statistical measurement of test results, including reliability and validity, is used to the foundation of objectivity of the procedure. The article emphasizes the professional orientation of learning process, a new vision of assessment materials according to modern trends of pedagogy. We offer a curriculum for teaching the test theory, peculiar aspects of language tests, as well as their role in forming the communicative competence. It is important to understand what can be tested, what different tests measure, including cloze-tests. Practical classes are held to form students’ skills to construct tests and estimate the items statistical characteristics using computer program.
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