TESTING and ASSESSMENT - QUIZ 4

When scoring students’ performance in group, what should the examiner concentrate on?

• What group members have known about the target
• What all group members are doing with the target language
• Who speaks English most fluently to be a leader in the group
• How often these examinees make mistakes in pronunciation

In conducting oral interviews with pairs, how can the dominance of one of the members of the pair be avoided?

• The examiner should interrupt the talkative student in the pair.
• Two students should have the same level of language ability.
• Extra time should be given to the less good student.
• Two members or candidates should be close friends in class.

What is the requirement of the most effective type of an oral examination with using pictures? The oral examiner should ask candidates ____________

• to say what will probably happen to in that series of pictures
• to describe the people or the events in a series of pictures
• to rearrange the mixed-up of pictures and express their feelings
• to tell a story about, or describe or/and discuss the given pictures

Which of the following is one of the micro-skills of speaking?

• Identifying features of face-to-face conversations
• Accomplishing different communicative functions
• Using appropriate styles and conversation rules
• Producing reduced forms of words and phrases

What are four important stages of the oral interview?

• Warm-up, language check and conversation
• Self-introduction, short talk and free discussion
• Small talks, guided role plays and conversations
• Warm-up, level check, probe and wind-down

Which of the following is NOT the benefit that the classroom teacher or the examiner can get when using group discussion and role playing in oral assessment?

• The test marker can discover how candidates are using the target language.
• The tester can realize how candidates cooperate with each other in learning.
• The teacher or assessor may recognize linguistic problems candidates have.
• The examiner can know how much progress candidates have made.

What is the significant consequence of the level check stage in an oral interview?

• The use of interactive strategies
• Appropriacy of language use
• Readiness to speak and confidence
• Ability to engage in a conversation

What kind of oral production tasks includes speeches, oral presentations and story-telling?

• Extensive
• Selective
• Interactive
• Réponsive

Which assessment task does NOT belong to responsive speaking?

• Giving instructions
• Question and Answer
• Paraphrasing a story
• Map-cued elicitation

Which task below is NOT intensive speaking?

• Picture-cued tasks
• Word repetition
• Dialogue completion
• Directed response