ISSN:0883-2919    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1981.tb00438.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The universal demand for English, and the present world dominance of it, have developed only in the last four or five decades. It has sometimes been claimed that the British Council and comparable American agencies have been responsible for this development; but in fact those Anglo‐Saxon organizations did not start it. Rather, they have accelerated a movement that had begun before they were bor

ISSN:0883-2919    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1981.tb00439.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

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Senhor Romero, a Portuguese, and Herr Svensson, a Swede, want to exchange information. The Portuguese language is a barrier to the Swede, as Swedish is to the Portuguese. What can they do?1. They can pay a translater/interpreter.2. Sr. Romero can learn Swedish or Hr. Svensson can learn Portuguese.3. They can use a third language which both know.

ISSN:0883-2919    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1981.tb00440.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0883-2919    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1981.tb00441.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The present situation in most foreign‐language (FL) classes is, surely, that listening comprehension is under‐represented. Against this background it is astonishing that a number of writers, especially in the USA, claim absolute priority for listening comprehension and want to have speaking delayed, even believing early attempts at oral proficiency to be prejudicial to mastery of the foreign language. I do not share this rather extreme view and will rather plead for an integration of listening and speaking ski

ISSN:0883-2919    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1981.tb00442.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The English teachers at Showa Women's University Junior and Senior High Schools, Tokyo, have been searching for a more efficient English‐teaching method for a long time. We are using a ‘team teaching’ programme to motivate the students to learn to use English in their school environment. This particular scheme involves two teachers, teaching simultaneously in these same classroom. Each team is made up of one Japanese teacher of English and one native speaker. Our students are 13 and 14 years old and are junior high school first gr

ISSN:0883-2919    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1981.tb00443.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0883-2919    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1981.tb00444.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In summarizing a passage, the writer has to select the main points and to some extent reformulate them in coherent sentences. That sounds simple enough, but in practice it is far more difficult, particularly when dealing with tautly‐written technical prose. Yet the ability to select facts or arguments and rank them in order of importance is one of the hallmarks of an educated person, if by that is understood a manipulator rather than a regurgitator of ideas. The summary can show if the passage to be summarized has been understood as a whole, if the main points have been correctly discerned, and if they can be reassembled into meaningful prose. It is, in short, a meaningful test of linguistic comprehension and manipulation, as well as an area for the practice of logic and deductio

ISSN:0883-2919    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1981.tb00445.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

It is often said that the moves towards realism and communication in the teaching of language are not being matched by developments in language testing; that we are having to test progress in ‘communicative’ learning programmes by tests built on ‘structural’ lines. Perhaps in no other area of language teaching is the ‘form versus function’ battle being more vigorously waged. And yet, in spite of the difficulty of reconciling the demands of realism and the requirements of scientific measurement, there are now several tests or examinations being developed to bring the broad ideas of functionalism into practical classroom use. I hope in a series of short articles to describe the broad ideas of communicative testing and to show how these ideas can be translated into actual test items in actual tests. One of the criticisms of my recent bookTesting Communicative Performance(Pergamon Press, 1980) has gone something like this: ‘The general ideas are all very fine, but let us see the actual tests before we can judge for ourselves if those ideas are

ISSN:0883-2919    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1981.tb00446.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

For several years we have employed a discrete‐item testing format as part of an examination battery taken annually by 20,000 secondary school children who have studied French as their common second language, and English for some 450 hours under rather difficult circumstances. This article takes a critical look at the Grammar and Vocabulary (G and V) component, and offers some practical solutions to the problems the test‐compiler, teacher, and candidate are likely to f

ISSN:0883-2919    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1981.tb00447.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY