Testing - W02

Question 1

Ultimate Goal (teaching, testing, learning)

Answer 1

Communicative Competence

Question 2

Native Speaker’s Language Knowledge

Answer 2

Communicative Competence

Question 3

Lado’s Model of Language Proficiency

Answer 3

Language as a system of communication

Question 4

Language as a a system of communication (comprises)

Answer 4

• Phonemes (smallest)
• Morphemes
• Phrases
• Clauses
• Sentences

Question 5

Communicative Competence (History)

Answer 5

• Lado’s language proficiency
• Hymes (1972)
• Canale and Swain (1980)
• Canale (1983)
• Bachman (1990)
• Bachman and Palmer (1996, 2010) - most complete

Question 6

Hymes (1972)

Answer 6

• Human ability to use language social function

(possible, feasible, appropriate)

• Non Linguistic Elements
• Language Knowledge

(competence - grammar+use vs.)

• Performance

Question 7

Knowledge is

Answer 7

Underlying

Question 8

Competence

Answer 8

Cognitive Ability to use (C1, C2, C3)

Question 9

Performance

Answer 9

Use judged acceptability in context (actual: writing, orally, reading)

Question 10

Canale and Swain (1980)

Answer 10

Syllabus + test desing for communicative purposes

• Grammatical Competence
• Sociolinguistic Knowledge (rules of use, context)
• Strategic Competence (compensate)

Question 11

Canale (1983)

Answer 11

Canale (1983)

• Knowledge and Skill

(Gramm, Scioling, Strategic, Driscours)

• Actual Communication

Question 12

Canale (1983) - Knowledge and Skill

Answer 12

• Grammatical Competence
• Sociolinguistic Competence
• Strategic Competence
• Discours Competence

Question 13

Canale (1983) - Actual Communication

Answer 13

Instances of Language Use (performance): the realization of such knowledge and skill under limiting psychological and environmental conditions

Question 14

Communication Always involves

Answer 14

Participation

Question 15

Bachman & Palmer (1996, 2010)

Answer 15

• Framework of Language Ability
• 2 Broad Areas: Language Know. + Metacognitive Strat.

Question 16

Bachman (1990)

Answer 16

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Communicative Competence

Organizational Competence

• (Grammatical, Textual)

Pragmatic Competence

• (Illocutionary, Sociolinguistic)
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Question 17

Bachman & Palmer’s (1996, 2010) - 2 Broad Areas

Answer 17

• Areas of Language Knowledge
• Areas of Metacognitive Strategy Use

Question 18

Bachman & Palmer’s (1996, 2010) - Language Knowledge (Area 1)

Answer 18

• Oranizational Knowledge
• Textual Knowledge
• Pragmatic Knowedge (Functional Knw. + Sociolinguistic Knw.)

Question 19

Bachman & Palmer - Lang. knw. - Organizational knw.

Answer 19

Voc, syntax, etc.

Question 20

Bachman & Palmer - Lang. knw. - Textual knowledge

Answer 20

Rhetorical or Converstional Organization

Question 21

Bachman & Palmer - Lang. knw. - Pragmatic Knw.

Answer 21

• Functional knw.
• Sociolinguistic knw.
• How utterances or sentences are related to the communicative goals of the language user and to the features of the language use setting

Question 22

Bachman & Palmer - Lang. knw. - Pragmatic Knw. - Functional knw.

Answer 22

“ideational, manipulative, heuristic, imaginative functions”

Question 23

Bachman & Palmer - Lang. knw. - Pragmatic Knw. - Sociolinguistic Knw.

Answer 23

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Genres, dialects/ varieties, registers, natural or idiomatic expressions, cultural references and figures of speech
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Question 24

Bachman & Palmer’s (1996, 2010) - Metacognitive Strategy Use (Area 2)

Answer 24

• Goal Setting (deciding what one is going to do)
• Appraising (taking stock of what is needed, what one has to work with, and how well one has done)
• Planning (deciding how to use what one has)

Question 25

MELS (communicative focus)

Answer 25

Focus on use of Language

Question 26

Reinvest understanding of texts means

Answer 26

Show that they understand what they read

Question 27

Language Skill?

Answer 27

Doesn’t Exist in MELS

• Ability

Question 28

Task (language)

Answer 28

An Activity, the completion of which, requires the use of language.