ENGLISH LANGUAGE TESTING I
KODE: MKB.4006-3-10-2
DOSEN PENGAMPU:
YAMON, S.Pd., M.Pd
WHAT IS A LANGUAGE TEST?
• LANGUAGE TEST IS DEFINED AS
ANY MEANS OF CHECKING WHAT
STUDENTS CAN DO WITH THE
LANGUAGE.
WHAT IS LANGUAGE TESTING?
• LANGUAGE TESTING MEANS ANY
ACTIVITY OF CHECKING WHAT
STUDENTS CAN DO WITH THE
LANGUAGE BEING LEARNED.
WHEN TO TEST?
• CAN BE BEFORE, DURING, OR
AFTER THE LANGUAGE TEACHING
TAKING PLACE.
WHO TEST/HOW MANY STUDENTS
SHOULD BE TESTED?
• TEACHER(S), INSTITUTION,
AND/OR GOVERNMENT
• CAN BE ONE OR MORE THAN
ONE STUDENTS
WHAT TO TEST?
• THE TEST SHOULD REPRESENTS
MATERIALS SHOULD BE TESTED.
WHERE TO TEST?
• CAN BE OUTDOOR, IN
CLASSROOM, IN THE
LABORATORY, AND/OR IN THE
EXAMINATION ROOM
HOW TO TEST?
• THE TEST SHOULD BE VALID AND
RELIABLE.
• VALID MEANS THE TEST SHOULD
TEST WHAT SHOULD BE TESTED
• RELIABLE MEANS THE RESULT OF
TEST SHOULD BE
CONSISTENT/BELIEVABLE
WHY TEST?
• TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH THE
STUDENTS HAVE LEANRNED. IT
DEPENDS ON THE PURPOSE OF
TESTING.
TEACHING AND TESTING
• WHO/WHAT WE TEACH IN ANY
LANGUAGE CLASSES
• WHO/WHAT WE TEST IN ANY
LANGUAGE CLASSES
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
TESTING AND TEACHING
• Teaching and testing can not be
compartmentalized. Testing can
be carried out while and after
teaching. Teacher tests because
he/she teaches.
ORAL
TEACHING
MATERIALS
LG SKILLS &
COMPONENETS
TESTING
WRITTEN
TARGET
COMPETENCY
(INDICATORS)
LANGUAGE TEACHING AIMS TO
DEVELOP STUDENTS’
COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
• TESTING AIMS TO MEASURE
STUDENTS LANGUAGE
COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
AND COMMUNICATIVE
PERFORMANCE.
TESTING LANGUAGE SKILLS
1. LISTENING COMPREHENSION: short utterances,
dialogues, talks and lectures accompanied with
pictures.
2. SPEAKING: interiew, conversation, picture description,
role play, problem solving pair/group work.
3. READING: a. Comprehension a set of test to test
students to understand gist of a text and to extract
key information on specific points and Reading Aloud
to test students accuracy on pronunciation, stressing,
intonation, and punctuation.
4. WRITING: letters, reports, memos, messages,
instuctions, and accounts of past events.
JENIS-JENIS TES BAHASA
I. Berdasarkan kriteria tujuan
penyelenggaraan:
a. Tes Seleksi (selection Test)
b. Tes Penempatan (placement test)
c. Tes hasil belajar (achievement test)
d. Tes Diagnosis (diagnostic test)
e. Tes Ujicoba (try out test)
II. Berdasarkan tahapan dan waktu
penyelenggaraan:
a. Tes Masuk (Potential Test)
b. Tes Formatif (formative test) = UH
c. Tes Sumatif (Sumative Test) = UTS
d. Tes awal (Pre-test)
e. Tes akhir (Post-Test)
III. Berdasarkan cara mengerjakannya:
a. Tes tetulis (Written Test)
b. Tes Lisan (oral test)
IV. Berdasarkan cara penyusunannya
a. Test buatan guru (teacher-made test)
b. Tes terstandar (Standardized test)
V. Berdasarkan kriteria jumlah peserta:
a. Tes perorangan (individual test)
b. Tes kelompok (group test)
VI. Berdasarkan cara penilaiannya:
a. Tes subyektif (subjective test)
b. Tes objektif (Objectuve test)
VII. Berdasarkan kriteria bentuk jawaban:
a. Tes Esei (essay test) jawaban panjang
b. Tes jawaban singkat (short answer)
c. Yes / no
d. True – false
e. Matching
f. Multiple choice
g. Dictation
h. Cloze test
i. Completion
VIII. Berdasarkan acuan penilaian:
a. Tes Acuan Norma (PAN/Norm Reference)
b. Tes Acuaqn Patokan (PAP/Criterion reference)
IX. Berdasarkan kriteria cara pandang bahasa:
a. Tes discrit (Discrete Test) = each lg component
b. Tes Integratif (Integrative Test) = integrated lg
components
c. Tes pragmatik (Phragmatic test)
d. Tes komunikasi (Communicative test)
TEST VALIDITY
• Validity of a test refers to the
extent to which it measures what
it supposed to measure.
• Valid means appropriate,
relevant, suitable, or true.
TYPES OF VALIDITY
1. Face validity: bgm test tampak bagus bagi
pembuatnya dan bagi yang dites.
2. Content validity: the representative sample
of the course materials and the relationship
between the test and teaching objective
being achieved.
3. Construct validity: the capacity of test to
measure certain specific trait of ability or
language skill.
4. Empirical or statistical validity: a validity
obtained from the result of a comparison
between the result of test with the scores of
another similar test by establishing certain
criteria.
5. Concurrent validity: the score of a test result
that related to the scores of a test that is
already established at about the same time.
6. Predictive validity: the degree to which the
result of test can predict how success an
individual in the future.
RELIABILITY
• Reliability refers to the consistency of
scores obtained from the
establishment of equivalent
instruments to the same object and
testees administered in different
time.
MIDTEST
1. What is language testing?
2. What is the relation between teaching and
testing?
3. What a language teacher should test?
4. Why testing is important?
5. Why a test should be valid and reliable?