3. General approach
Young learners: from 5 to 12
Not everyone does it.
Why?
Benefices of the program.
Common yardstick (For comparing results).
Positive attitudes towards language
learning.
4. General approach
Recommendations:
1. Integrate testing in assessing and
assessing in the teaching programme.
2. Immediate and positive feedback.
3. Student self assessment (monitoring their
own progress)
4. Conditions to perform at their best.
5. Particular demands for tests
Relaxed setting.
Valid and reliable.
Special features:
Brief and varied tasks.
Tasks with stories and games.
Pictures attractive typography
and color.
Tasks they can handle
in their L1.
Involve interaction tasks.
Integrated-skills task.
12. Recommended techniques:
Testing Oral Ability
Questions about him and family.
Pointing on and describing images on a
card.
Placing small cards on bigger ones.
Differences between two pictures.
Completing the story.
Identifying the odd picture.
13. Recommended techniques:
Testing Oral Interaction
Guessing who I am describing.
Discovering common pictures.
Finding common objects in two
pictures.
Completing information.