Title CHAPTER 2D PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT 2425.pdf ✅

CHAPTER 2 (cont): PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT Lecturer: Bui Diem Bich Huyen

AUTHENTICITY ▪ the degree of correspondence of the characteristics of a given language test task to the features of a target language task (Bachman and Palmer, 1996) ▪ assessment that requires students to apply what they’ve learned in a new, complex circumstance or situation (Shaw, 2019) ▪ assessment that the student can successfully transfer the knowledge and skills gained in the classroom to various contexts, scenarios, and situations beyond the classroom (New Jersey Institute of Technology) → Designing tests that resemble real-world language tasks, encouraging students to apply what they have learnt to new complex situations and transfer knowledge from the classroom to various contexts
SIGNALS OF AUTHENTICITY Designing tests that resemble real-world language tasks, encouraging students to apply what they have learnt to new complex situations and transfer knowledge from the classroom to various contexts AN AUTHENTIC TEST 1. contains language that is as natural as possible 2. has items that are contextualized rather than isolated 3. includes meaningful, relevant, interesting topics 4. provides some thematic organization to items, such as through a story line or episode 5. offers tasks that replicate real-world tasks