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Knowledge about Language and Testing THE NON-USE OF KAL Testing Structural Competence

المؤلف:  Clover Jones McKenzie

المصدر:  Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education

الجزء والصفحة:  P321-C18

2026-09-10

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Knowledge about Language and Testing

THE NON-USE OF KAL

Testing Structural Competence

If the students are going to be able to select appropriate language for specific situations, then language needs to be taught in meaningful contexts. Structures may be isolated and taught in some cases, but these then need to be placed in contexts. However, all the test samples collected contain items testing the grammar of English. These tests contain lists of unrelated sentences requiring the students to fill in or underline a word, substitute one word for another or to underline the incorrect portion of sentences. Isolated sentences are even used for the filling in of punctuation marks. These isolated sentences are incompatible with the communicative approach to language teaching. They require the students to decode the meaning of one sentence, then forget that and move on to another. Also there is no context on which to base their understanding.