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.