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3. Question types for testing language
Objectives: to help participants reflect on the types of tasks they use in their own tests and explore tasks suitable for testing pronunciation, use of grammar, vocabulary and functional language
Time: 25 minutes
Materials: Handout 1
Interaction: individual, pair work, plenary
Procedure:
 Refer participants back to their responses in the ‘Lead in’ stage question about the language skills and areas their tests focus on.
 Explain that many tests check the knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, but it is also important to test the use of language, pronunciation and the four language skills as well.
 Ask participants the following question and elicit responses in plenary:
- Consider the tests you have with your pupils. What types of questions and tasks do they include to test language areas (e.g. grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) and skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening)?
Possible answers:
multiple choice questions, filling in the gaps in the text, True/False statements, completing tables and sentences, etc.
 Ask participants the following questions and elicit responses in plenary:
- Are the types of questions or tasks you have in tests similar to activities and exercises that your pupils do in the lessons?
- How are they similar and different from each other?
 Establish that teachers can use many of the activities from their lessons in tests they develop. This will ensure that pupils are familiar with the type of question in the test because the format and instructions of these tasks and activities are similar. However, there is a fundamental difference in the purpose, because the purpose of the test task or question is to test, not to teach.
 Tell participants that now they will look at some more types of tasks they can use for testing grammar, vocabulary, language functions and pronunciation.
Give out Handout 1 and ask participants to work individually and decide which language area each task is testing.
 Ask participants to compare and discuss their answers in pairs.
 Discuss answers in plenary.