Assessing Students' Proficiency Using an English Communicative Test: Building Communicative Tests for Efl Students

Contemporary scholars believe that teaching and testing are so interrelated that it is impossible to work in a certain field without being concerned with the other. Assessment and evaluation attract the specialists' attention in terms of the important role they play in modifying and improving the educational inputs and outputs. Scholars feel sure that any language test which seeks to discover what students can do with language and provides a focus for purposeful, everyday communication activities will have a more useful effect on the learning of a certain language. This book provides teachers with an EFL communicative test which will function as a guide for them when building components of the test. Moreover,it suggests certain procedures to be applied by teachers, by educational authorities and by researchers.