Assessing Writing (Ch. 9; H. Douglas Brown)

These are the objectives or things teachers want to test in assessing writing, except ….

• Writing sentences that are grammatically correct

• Letters construction

• Logical development of a main idea

• Spelling correctness

There are three types of written language genres. These are the types, except ….

• Personal writing

• Academic writing

• Institutional writing

• Job-related writing

Forms, questionnaires, medical reports, immigration documents, and financial documents (e.g., checks, tax forms, and loan applications) are the types of ….

• Personal writing

• Academic writing

• Institutional writing

• Job-related writing

There are four types of writing performance that reflect the uniqueness of the skill area. The ability to spell correctly and to perceive phoneme-grapheme correspondences in the English spelling system belong to …. type.

• Imitative

• Intensive (controlled)

• Responsive

• Extensive

Which one of these following statements that does not belong to microskills of writing?

• Distinguish between literal and implied meanings when writing.

• Use cohesive devices in written discourse.

• Produce writing at an efficient rate of speed to suit the purpose.

• Express a particular meaning in different grammatical forms.

A task which combine dictation with a written script that has a relatively frequent deletion ratio and the test sheet provides a list of missing words from which the test-taker must select is ….

• Form completion task

• Converting numbers and abbreviations to words task

• Picture-cued task

• Listening cloze selection task

A variation on pictures is the use of a simple form that asks for our personal information is ….

• Form completion task

• Converting numbers and abbreviations to words task

• Picture-cued task

• Listening cloze selection task

A number of task types are in popular use to assess the ability to spell words correctly and to process phoneme-grapheme correspondences. Which one of these task types that risks confusing students who do not recognize the phonetic alphabet or use it in their daily routine?

• Spelling test

• Multiple-choice technique

• Matching phonetic symbols

• Picture-cued task

A task which a paragraph is read at normal speed for 2-3 times, then the teacher asks students to rewrite the paragraph from the best of their recollection is called ….

• Dicto-comp

• Copying

• Matching

• Dictation

These are some possibilities way to measure grammatical competence in grammatical transformation task, except ….

• Change from active to passive voice

• Change the wrong sentence into the correct one

• Combine two sentences into one using a relative pronoun

• Change direct speech to indirect speech