The development of task-based assessment in English for academic purposes programs  

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Robinson, Peter ; Ross, Steven

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 4 (Dec. 1996), page 455-476.
Fulltext: Vol 17, 4, p 455-476.pdf (1.05MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/APL/17 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Proposals for task-based approaches to syllabus design (Prabhu 1987; Nunan 1989; Long and Crookes 1992) have had little to say about the role of testing and evaluation procedures. This paper suggests a role for 'authentic measurement' using performance measures in task-based approaches to assessment. In particular, we describe the implementation of a task-based, performancereferenced test of English for academic purposes, developed for use in placing ESL students into an academic reading program at a university English language institute. Results of the present study, based on contrastive discriminant analyses of systemic and mixed systemic/procedural placement batteries with an academic research task performance as the criterion variable, suggest that traditional skills-focused tests of EAP ability relate only weakly to learners' ability to act on such skills in authentic task conditions. Indirect performance-referenced tests, when used in combination with systemreferenced tests, are much clearer predictors of success in performing academic task simulations. The relationship of performance-referenced testing to issues in placement and academic English course design are discussed in light of the present study.

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