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Chiedu department of languages, delta state polytechnic, ogwashiuku. David kwok is the director of the hong kong asian film festival. Testing spoken language by nic underhill waterstones. Review of testing spoken language by nic underhill, cup 1987. It is just one form of assessment, and other methods will often be more. Pdf cambridge handbooks for language teachers testing. This year 20 is a special year we celebrate the centenary of a standardised english speaking test.
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Testing spoken language by nic underhill, 97805212769, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The comprehensive assessment of spoken language casl2 is the most uptodate measure of oral language skills available. A handbook of practical testing techniques intended for anyone who has to design, adapt, or use oral tests of english as a foreign language. Preserving the strengths of the original and highly regarded test, the second edition introduces new and enhanced features to increase validity, functionality, and ease of use. This practical manual on assessing spoken language is still a widely used collection of techniques despite the fact that it was published in 1987. Jul, 2018 testing spoken language, a handbook of oral testing techniques, nic underhill, cambridge handbooks for teachers, 1987 july, 2018 july 20, 2018 cambridgedeltapreparation image source. Using oral interviews to assess studentsachievement in. The most important influence on the development of language testing has been the. Free standardized tests flashcards about nic written test. Learner english a teachers guide to interference and other problems edited by michael swan and bernard smith testing spoken language a handbook of oral testing techniques by nic underhill literature in the language classroom a resource book of. A handbook of oral testing techniques by nic underhill.
Testing spoken language, a handbook of oral testing. Pdf cambridge handbooks for language teachers keep talking. It is often used in communicative language teaching and taskbased language learning. Language testing and assessment routledge applied linguisticsis a series of comprehensive resource books, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of english language and applied linguistics. The book takes the reader through the testing process, giving practical examples and discussing the issues involved at. This report describes a qualitative discourse analysis of native speaker and nonnative speaker responses to the revised test of spoken english tse.
Although designed for use in teaching english, the book could readily be used to create tests in other languages. Download testing spoken language nicholas underhill on. Information gap tasks are also used to test language ability. Information gap tasks are contrasted with opinion gap tasks, in which all information is. Omenogor department of english, college of education, agbor, delta state. Download pdf testing spoken language a handbook of oral. Nic underhill states,many language tests are given beca use it is the accepted practice to. The writers, critical readers and academic coordinators who. A handbook of oral testing techniques nic underhill.
Testing spoken language cambridge university press. You will listen to a radio interview between alison james and david kwok. Testing and assessment in language learning principles and approaches to language testing note the hou is responsible for the editing of the publication and for the development of the texts in accordance with the distance learning methodology. Cambridge university press 05212760 testing spoken. Specifically, the computerized spoken language tests measure nonnative speakers facility in a spoken language. It takes the reader through the testing process, giving practical examples and discussing the issues involved at each stage. It is for teachers, testers, course designers and educational planners. According to underhill, these kind of tasks have the advantage that they produce concrete evidence of communicative competence, or of the lack of it, but the disadvantage of only testing the ability to communicate factual information.
Everythingbutt alice frost francesca le and miranda miller. Teaching adult second language learners pdf book manual. It offers the flexibility of 14 standalone tests in one comprehensive yet specific battery. The accuracy of the scores, the quality of the test as a whole, and the assumptions made about oral language are examined through the relevant types of reliability and validity as well as through extensive research. Nic underhill published on 19870528 by cambridge university press. Publication date 1987 topics language and languages. Jul, 2018 testing spoken language, a handbook of oral testing techniques, nic underhill, cambridge handbooks for teachers, 1987 july, 2018 july 20, 2018 cambridgedeltapreparation 1 comment image source. Abstract reliability is concerned with how we measure. A handbook of oral testing techniques by nic underhill pp.
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