14.5
Other forms of testing

This section moves beyond the four skills to look at other testing procedures, some well established, others of more recent provenance. Cloze and C-tests have been in use for a number of years and the first sub-section considers their purpose and efficacy. Grammar tests and translation tasks are widely used in university language programmes and approaches to these are considered in subsequent sections. Finally, we turn our attention to the use of projects, portfolios and reviews as increasingly popular alternative methods of assessing students' language.


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