Assessing Writing

What skill has become indispensable in our global literate community?

• Listening to music

• Speaking in public

• Reading aloud

• Writing

What was thought several years ago about writing in second language teaching?

• It was an exclusive skill of the priests

• It was only for recording speeches

• It was only to reinforce grammatical and lexical features

• It was a unique skill

What type of writing primarily focuses on the form of words and letters?

• Imitative

• Intensive

• Responsive

• Extensive

What type of writing focuses on the production of appropriate vocabulary within a context?

• Extensive

• Intensive

• Imitative

• Responsive

What type of writing involves the organization and logical development of ideas, using details to support them?

• Imitative

• Responsive

• Extensive

• Intensive

What type of assessment tasks are used for imitative writing?

• Dictation and Dicto-Comp

• Paraphrasing

• Reading summaries

• Paragraph construction

What type of assessment tasks are used for intensive writing?

• Short answers and sentence completion

• Ordering tasks

• Grammatical transformation tasks

• Vocabulary tasks

What type of writing focuses on connecting sentences in a paragraph and creating a logical sequence?

• Imitative

• Intensive

• Responsive

• Extensive

What type of writing involves the successful management of all writing processes and strategies?

• Responsive

• Imitative

• Extensive

• Intensive

What scoring method is used for extensive writing?

• Secondary

• Analytical

• Primary

• Holistic