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Test for Young Learners
Paula Garrido García
Rafael Hernando González
Structure
General approach
Particular demands
Recommended techniques
General approach
Young learners: from 5 to 12
Not everyone does it.
Why?
Benefices of the program.
Common yardstick (For comparing results).
Positive attitudes towards language learning.
General approach
Recommendations:
1. Integrate testing in assessing and assessing in the teaching programme.
2. Immediate and positive feedback.
3. Student self assessment (monitoring their
own progress)
4. Conditions to perform at their best.
Particular demands for tests Relaxed setting.
Valid and reliable.
Special features:
Brief and varied tasks.
Tasks with stories and games.
Pictures attractive typography
and color.
Tasks they can handle
in their L1.
Involve interaction tasks.
Integrated-skills task.
Recommended techniques
Listening Reading Writing
Oral ability
Oral interaction
Recommended techniques:Testing Listening
Placing objects or identifying people.
Multiple choice pictures.
Recommended techniques:Testing Listening
Color and draw on existing line drawing.
Information transfer.
Recommended techniques:Testing Reading
Multiple choice.
(Reference to Chapter 11: short answer technique).
Recommended techniques:Testing Writing
Anagram with pictures.
Gap filling with pictures.
Recommended techniques:Testing Writing
Cartoon story.
Recommended techniques:Testing Oral Ability
Questions about him and family.
Pointing on and describing images on a card.
Placing small cards on bigger ones.
Differences between two pictures.
Completing the story.
Identifying the odd picture.
Recommended techniques:Testing Oral Interaction
Guessing who I am describing.
Discovering common pictures.
Finding common objects in two pictures.
Completing information.