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Assessment task
  1. Write a critique of your department's assessment of language work. You should structure your critique around the following points:

    • The various purposes of testing in the department.
    • The extent to which different language skills are assessed.
    • How written work is tested and marked.
    • The part played by grammar testing.
    • The variety of oral assessment tasks that are employed.
    • How listening and reading are assessed.
    • The role of translation.

  2. Is there scope for expanding the range and variety of testing techniques employed? What would be the advantages of doing this? What problems would you envisage and how might they be overcome?

 
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