Testing Oral Ability
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What’s the objective of teaching spoken
language?
The objective of teaching spoken language is
the development of the ability to interact
successfully in that language.
Interaction
Comprehension
Production
The basic problem in testing oral ability is
represented in the following:
1.Setting tasks that are representative of
the population of oral tasks that we
expect candidates to be able to perform.
2.The tasks should elicit behavior which
truly represents the candidates’ oral
ability
3.The sample of behavior can be scored
validly and reliably.