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Language Testing Methods and Techniques

This document outlines topics related to language testing and evaluation, including: introduction to language testing; approaches to language testing; objective and subjective testing; testing grammar, vocabulary, listening comprehension, oral production, reading comprehension, and writing skills; criteria and types of tests; and interpreting test scores. The key areas covered are the different forms of objective and subjective language tests, factors that determine test validity and reliability, and providing feedback to students.

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Language Testing Methods and Techniques

This document outlines topics related to language testing and evaluation, including: introduction to language testing; approaches to language testing; objective and subjective testing; testing grammar, vocabulary, listening comprehension, oral production, reading comprehension, and writing skills; criteria and types of tests; and interpreting test scores. The key areas covered are the different forms of objective and subjective language tests, factors that determine test validity and reliability, and providing feedback to students.

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Introduction to language testing


2. Approaches to language testing
3. Objective testing
4. Test of grammar and Usage
5. Testing Vocabulary
6. Listening Comprehension Test
7. Oral production test
8. Testing Reading Comprehension
9. Testing the writing skills
10. Criteria and types of test
11. Interpreting test scores

Mingg Kemampuan
u Akhir yang
Materi Pembelajaran
Ke Direncanakan
(Sub CP MK)
1 2 3
1 Mahasiswa Introduction to Language
mampu Testing and Evaluation
menjelaskan 1. Testing and Teaching
pengertian 2. The purpose of test,
Language testing evaluation and
and evaluation assessment
dengan bahasa 3. What should be tested
mereka sendiri and to what standard?
(C2, A3, P2) 4. Testing the language
skills and areas
5. Language skills and
elements
6. Recognition and
Production of language
testing and evaluation
7. Problem of sampling
8. Avoiding traps for the
students

2&3 Mahasiswa Approaches to Language


mampu Testing
memahami dan 1. Background
menganalisis ciri- 2. The Essay-translation
ciri approaches to approach
language testing 3. The Structuralist approach
(C4, A2,P2) 4. The interrogative approach
5. The communicative
approach
4 Mahasiswa Objective and Subjective Testing
mampu 1. Objective and subjective
menganalisis dan 2. Multiple choice items :
membedakan general
objective and 3. Multiple choice items:
subjective test the stem/the correct
(C4, A3,P2) option/the distracters
4. Writing the test
5 Mahasiswa Test of grammar and usage
mampu 1. introduction
menjelaskan 2. multiple-choice items:
macam-macam item types
test of grammar 3. constructing multiple
and usage choice-items
dan mampu 4. constructing error-
menyusun test of recognition multiple
grammar and choice items
usage 5. constructing
(C3, A4, P3) rearrangement items
6. constructing completing
items
7. constructing
transformation items
8. constructing broken
sentence items
9. constructing pairing
and matching items
10. constructing
combination and
additional items

6 Mahasiswa Testing Vocabulary


mampu 1. Selection of items
menjelaskan 2. Multiple choice items
pengertian dan 3. Sets (associated words)
bentuk-bentuk 4. Matching items
testing for 5. More objective items
vocabulary, serta 6. Completion items
mampu
menerapkan
prinsip
penyusunannya
dalam menyusun
testing and
evaluating
vocabulary
(C3, A4, P3)
7 Mahasiswa Listening comprehension test
mampu 1. What is listening
menjelaskan 2. Types of listening
pengertian dan comprehension test:
bentuk-bentuk -phoneme
listening discrimination test
comprehension -test of stress and
test, serta mampu intonation
menerapkan -statements and
prinsip dialogue
penyusunannya -testing comprehension
dalam menyusun through visual materials
listening -understanding talks
comprehension and lecture
test
(C3, A4, P3) 3. Finding materials for
listening
4. Using recording for
assessment
8 Ujian Tengah Semester 25
9 Mahasiswa Testing speaking skill
mampu 1. Introduction to
menjelaskan assessing or testing
pengertian dan speaking skill
bentuk-bentuk 2. Some difficulties in
testing speaking testing speaking skill
skill, serta 3. Designing and
mampu evaluation
menerapkan speaking/oral
prinsip production test:
penyusunannya -reading aloud
dalam menyusun -conversational
testing speaking exchange
skill -using pictures for
(C3, A4, P3) assessing oral
production
-Interview
-some other technique
for speaking test
4. Giving feedback to
enhance learning
5. Evaluating speaking
performance
10 Mahasiswa Testing Reading Comprehension
mampu 1. the nature of reading
menjelaskan skill
pengertian dan 2. technique for assessing
bentuk-bentuk reading:
Testing Reading - beginner,
Comprehension, intermediate and
serta mampu advance reading
menerapkan comprehension:
prinsip matching items
penyusunannya - true/false reading
dalam menyusun test
Testing Reading - multiple-choice
Comprehension items; short and
(C3, A4, P3) longer text
- completion items
- rearrangement
items
- close procedure
- open-ended and
miscellaneous items
- cursory reading
3. Evaluating and
Designing Reading Test
11 Mahasiswa Testing the writing skill
mampu 1. The Writing skills
menjelaskan 2. Types and purpose of
pengertian dan writing assessment
bentuk-bentuk 3. Testing composition
testing the writing
writing skill, serta 4. Setting the composition
mampu 5. Grading the composition
menerapkan 6. Treatment of written
prinsip errors
penyusunannya 7. Objective test
dalam menyusun 8. Controlled writing
testing the 9. Designing rubric for
writing skill evaluating writing test
(C3, A4, P3) 10. Feedback
12 & Mahasiswa Criteria and types of language
13 mampu test
menjelaskan dan 1. Validity
menganalisis 2. Reliability
Criteria and types 3. Reliability vs validity
of language test 4. Discrimination
(C3, A3, P3) 5. Administration
6. Test instruction
7. Backwash effects
8. Type of tests
14 Mahasiswa Scoring and Feedback
mampu 1. Scoring:
menjelaskan dan - Frequency
menginterpretasi Distribution
kan scoring test - Measures of central
and feedback tendency
(C3, A3, P3) - Measures of
dispersion
- Item analysis
- Moderating
- Item cards and
banks
2. Feedback:
- Feedback for
formative
assessment
- Feedback types
- Effective teacher
feedback
A test can be said to be successful in carrying out its measuring function, if it is able to provide accurate measurement results.

Subjective tests and objective tests, the form of the test consists of subjective tests, namely essay tests or descriptions and objective tests,
namely multiple choice tests, matching tests, true false tests, short answer tests.

Definition of objective tests are tests that are carried out using predetermined measurements. For example multiple choice (multiple
choice). In this objective test, students just have to choose several options according to the questions provided. From these options there is a
breaker answer, one answer that is similar to the correct answer.

Definition of subjective test Subjective test is a test carried out with measures based on categories. For example, essay or description tests.
The description test requires students to answer questions with the abilities they have. It didn't matter whether he answered long or short.
Subjective test assessments are carried out based on categories determined by the question maker. Although the answer is long but does not fit
the category determined by the question maker, then the score is not necessarily high.

1. Objective Test

The advantages of Objective Test are:


1. Answering the objective test does not take much time.
2. Giving grades and how to assess objective tests is faster and easier because it does not require special skills from the scorer.
3. The object of the test does not care about mastery of the language, so it is easy to implement.
The disadvantages of Objective Test, namely:
1. Students often guess in giving answers, because they have not mastered the lesson material.
2. Indeed, quite a lot of sampling tests were proposed to students, and they only took a relatively short time to answer.
3. It is unusual to invite students to think at a higher level.
4. It costs a lot, because the sheet of test items must be as many as the number of test followers.
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The advantages of the Subjective Test are:
1. Easy to prepare and arrange
2. Does not give much chance for speculation or chance
3. Encouraging students to dare to express their opinions and arrange them in the form of good sentences
4. Provide opportunities for students to express their meaning in their own language style and way.
5. Can find out the extent to which students explore a problem being tested/tested.

The disadvantages of Subjective Test, namely:


1. The limited scope of the subject matter assessed and the difficulty of correcting answers objectively (Sudjana, 2001:262)
2. The level of validity and reliability is low because it is difficult to know which aspects of student knowledge have actually been mastered.
3. Less representative in terms of representing the entire scope of the subject matter to be tested because the problem is only a few
(limited)
4. The way of examination is much influenced by subjective elements
5. The examination is more difficult because it requires more individual consideration from the assessor.
6. The time for correction is long and cannot be delegated to others.

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