COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TESTING: HOW TEACHERS UNDERSTAND AND APPLY IT IN CONSTRUCTING TEST ITEMS

Mirizon, Soni (2009) COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TESTING: HOW TEACHERS UNDERSTAND AND APPLY IT IN CONSTRUCTING TEST ITEMS. Forum Kependidikan, 29 (1). pp. 83-89. ISSN 0215-9392

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Abstract

This research was aimed to find out how teachers of English understand the concept of Communicative Language Testing and apply it in constructing test items in junior high schools in Palembang city. The subjects were forty teachers of English from twenty junior high schools in Palembang city which were selected randomly. This research was conducted during five months from July to November 2008. Descriptive analysis design was used as the research method. The instruments used in this research were a questionnaire and a documentation sheet. The results showed that there were nine findings related to the teachers of English understanding towards the concept of communicative language testing. They were (1) all of the teachers of English had ever constructed test items for UAS/UAN; (2) instead of constructing the test items alone, they did it collaboratively with their colleagues who taught at the parallel classes; (3) the test items that they made only tested certain language skills—reading and writing; (4) most of those teachers still found difficulties in constructing good test; (5) the test items they made were not only in the forms of objective test but also in essay test; (6) they believed that competence is more important than the performance as reflected in the test items they made; (7) most of them had never heard communicative language testing term; (8) most of them did not know some tasks that were normally used in communicative language testing; and (9) most of them had no idea of whether the test items they made were in the form of communicative language testing or not. Furthermore, the respondents’ application of the understanding the communicative language test was considered low. It can be seen from the documentation of the test items they had written. Mostly those test items were written in terms of discrete point test in which each skill of English was tested separately only in certain skills– reading and writing. In addition, the context of those tests was not related to daily real life.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	#3 Repository of Lecturer Academic Credit Systems (TPAK) > Corresponding Author
Divisions:	06-Faculty of Education and Educational Science > 88111-Linguistics Education (S2)
Depositing User:	Soni Mirizon
Date Deposited:	08 Mar 2023 07:08
Last Modified:	08 Mar 2023 07:08
URI:	http://repository.unsri.ac.id/id/eprint/90309

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