DESIGNING TEST TASKS

1. Target Language Use Tasks

1.1. requiring language to achieve a communicative goal

2. Diagnostic Information

2.1. identify areas of further instruction

3. Achievement Information

3.1. determine the degree to which students had mastered the course material

4. Preliminary Needs Analysis

4.1. determining the specific characteristics of language use in these contexts

5. Specification of Test Tasks

5.1. process of identifying and describing the characteristics of the individual test tasks.

6. Target Language Use (TLU) Situations

6.1. using of target language to communicate in real life or in which we use it for instruction or setting

7. Target Language Use Domain

7.1. inferences about language ability and/or grammatical ability

8. Test Aunthenticity

8.1. correspondence between features of language-use and features of test tasks

9. Operationalization

9.1. process of designing tasks to elicit concrete samples of performance to reflect the underlying claims about the constructs