Testing language skills: grammar, listening, reading comprehension, writing, speaking.

Testing language skills The teacher tests listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary.Further follows test formats applicable for each skill Reading skills: Open-ended comprehension questions and answers in the target language or in the mother tongue. Information transfer, jumbled paragraphs.Summary writing note taking Multiple-choice items Short answers test Cloze test Gap-filling test False/true statement Writing skills: Guided writing (letter completion, re-writing, information transfer, free writing) Dictations Compositions Reproductions Writing stories Writing diaries Filling-in forms Word formation Sentence transformation Sentence joining Open-ended sentence completion.expansion exercises, Rewriting. Scrambled exercises transformation exercises, Crosswords, clarification Paraphrasing, matching exercises, labeling Speaking skills: Describing people Retelling stories Describing pictures Spotting the differences Role-plays, interviews, group-discussions, describing pictures, information-gap, activities Sentence repetition, sentence responses to cues Listening: Open-ended questions and answers, Note-taking, interviews Gap-filling, information transfer, Multiple-choice questions, Jumbled pictures Multiple – choice test Multiple – choice type is considered to be the most effective of the objective types. It consists of two parts: a sentence with a missing word (which is called stem) and the list of possible answers. Only one answer is rigth6 he other are called distracters. They must be carefully chosen. Distracters should be the same form of word as the correct answer, the right answer should not be given through grammatical cues, only one answer should be given as a correct one. Testing is closely connected with evaluation and correcting mistakes. As for methods of marking in an objective test there is only one or limited number of right answers and no doubt about what the answer is. Many factors, such as grammatical accuracy, spelling, style, vocabulary, punctuation need to be assessed in subjective test. They can be less reliable in their results than objective tests.

The content of foreign language teaching. The content of FLT involves 3 main components. 1) Psychological component or habits and skills which ensure the use of the target language as a means of communication. They are listening, speaking, reading and writing skills; 2) Linguistic component. It includes language material (sentence patterns, utterance-patterns, pattern- dialogues, texts) and linguistic material (phonology, grammar, vocabulary) which should be assimilated to be used in language skills; 3) Methodological component. Pupils should be taught strategies, how to learn a foreign language. Ex. how to memorize words and keep them in memory, how to perform drill, creative exercises. The content of teaching in our schools is laid down in the syllabus and realized in teaching materials and in teacher’s speech.