Semantic Development of Child

Semantic Development of Child Child language development in semantic knowledge consists of building up the lexical entry of a word until their words will match that of an adult. Children begin by using a word in a restricted setting, eventually they start using the word in a larger semantic network and they learn to detach it from the situation in which they gained...

Characters of Good ESL/EFL Teachers

ESL/EFL learners are being increase time by time. They come with the same purpose, to learn a second language and being success with it. Connecting with this kind of situation, the teachers of ESL/EFL are demand to be a high quality of ESL/EFL teachers. Remember that a successful of learners born from a qualified teachers. I've search some site to know what are the characters...

Info: Scholarship Teaching Clinic

What a wonderful life would be if today's young generation has a better English skill. They can do anything they like easily without any matter problem. Everyone knows that English has an important role in today's life. It is for business, education, marketing, and many more. But sadly not everyone around the world can get an opportunity to continue their education and...

Performance-Based Assessment

      Performance-Based Assessment Performance-based assessment is an alternative form of assessment that moves away from traditional paper and pencil tests. Performance-based assessment involves having the students produce a project,oral production, written production, open-ended response, integrated performance (across skill areas), group performance, and other interactive task. The students are engaged in creating a final project...

Communicative Language Testing

      Communicative Language Testing By the mid-1980s, the language-testing field had abandoned arguments about the unitary trait hypothesis and had begun to focus on designing communicative language-testing tasks. Bachman and Palmer (1996, p 9) include among “fundamental” principles of language testing the need for a correspondence between language test performance and language use: “In order for a particular language test to be useful...

Discrete-Point and Integrative Testing

         Discrete-Point and Integrative Testing 1.      The Definition Discrete-Point are constructed on the assumption that language can be broken down into its component parts and that those parts can be tested successfully. These components are the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and various units of language (discrete points) of phonology/graphology, morphology, lexicon,...

Kinds of Tests and Testing

3 Kinds of Tests and Testing The purposes of this material is to know which language testing is carried out. It goes on to make a number of distinctions: between direct and indirect testing, between discrete point and integrative testing, between norm-referenced and criterion-referenced testing, and between objective and subjective testing. Tests can be categorised...