Evaluation and Testing of Students - Diagnostic & Progress Test
This video is part of our video series on "Evaluation and Testing of Students". In this video, we look at the diagnostic and progress test. A diagnostic test gives the teacher information about the students' current strengths and weaknesses, while a progress test is usually held multiple times during a course covering all the material taught up until that point to check understanding.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.
Unit 12 is a continuation of Unit 11 which the other two skills, speaking and writing will be mentioned thoroughly in order for us to understand how they are used in the practice of Englis.
While reading and listening are being considered as the skills to receive information, speaking and writing are known as the productive skills which is primarily used in communicatio.
When learners are having speaking lessons, teachers should be focused on their accuracy and fluency as they are both equally importan.
But despite the equality of both aspects, teachers should have a clear distribution of the lesson plan in order to teach the two skills during different stage.
Speaking activities can be categorized into three different types which are the controlled activities which teachers will have the language controlled and the lesson is aimed on having students to pronounce the language accuratel.
Guided activities are accuracy based as well as the controlled activities, however, it also involves creativity and productivit.
Model dialogues and guided role-play are usually used in these lesson.
Creative communication is used to improve and help students to speak the language fluentl.
The resource or material is usually being brought up by the teacher but the language content is often controlled by the student.
One can express their thoughts and ideas by speaking, but they can also communicate by writing, especially when non native speakers are nervous from pronouncing a second languag.
However, there are several things that we need to concern in writing skills such as forms of grammar, choice of vocabulary, spelling, handwriting, the formatting and how punctuation is use.
As there are many concerns during writing lessons, it is crucial for students to understand what the teacher is aimed for at the end of the lesso.
Educator should be giving out clear and simple instructions for the activity and review any potential problems ahead such as sentence structure, format and vocabularie.
