TEST FOR YOUNG LEARNERS

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Why do we have to test young learners (aged 5-12)?

Ensure that the teaching programme is effective

Need for a common criterion

Make comparisons between assessment and testing

Testing

Assesment

Teaching programme

Some recomendations to test properly…

Inmediate feedback

Increasing value itselfAlways positive!

Self assessment

Conventions easy to understand

Brief and varied: two or more test

Reliability & Validity

Attractive for children..they love stories and play!

Handle in their own languagePromotes interaction

Be familiar with teacher and environment

RECOMMENDED TECHNIQUES TO TEST DIFFERENT SKILLS

LISTENING

READING WRITING SPEAKING

To place objects in a picture.Example on the net:

http://wikisaber.es/Contenidos/LObjects/Macmillan_bb1_actJ/index.html

Multiple choice pictures. http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7258

To colour and to draw on existing line drawing. http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/paint-it/pets

Information transfer (also involves simple reading and writing).

TECNIQUES TO TEST LISTENING

Multiple choice.

Gap filling with pictures

TECHINIQUES TO TEST READING

BETTER WITH PICTURES!!

Anagram with picture: to test vocabulary and spelling.

Cartoon story: look at the cartoons and tell a simple story.

Gap filling with pictures (reading and writing).

TECNIQUES TO TEST WRITING

Asking straightforward questions about the child and their family.

Giving the child a card with a scene on it and asking them about it.

Giving the child two very similar pictures but which differ in obvious ways

and the child is asked to say what the differences are.

The child must tell a story through some pictures.

Sets of pictures are presented

and the child is asked to identify the odd one.

TECNIQUES FOR ORAL ABILITY: SPEAKING & INTERACTION

Warming up

In pairs, a child can describe a classmate and the other one has to guess who is being described.

There are four different postcards and everyone is given three of them. They have to discover

which cards they have in common by asking and answering questions.

There are two pictures which are different but which contain a number of objects that are

identical. The child who has picture A has to describe an object in their picture and the child who

has picture B has to say whether it is to be found in their picture.

Children have some cards with incomplete information. They have to ask questions to end up

with all the information.

TECNIQUES FOR ORAL ABILITY II: INTERACTION

ANY QUESTION??

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