Speaking English Test
Chapter 1
Introduction
Language testing and teaching can be regarded as twins-they are so closely interrelated that it’s impossible to work in either field without the other one. Language testing can serve to check the achievements of language teaching and at the same time it can exert some wash back effects on teaching, which may be conducive to language teaching or do harm to it. The relationship between oral English testing and teaching is also the same case. The aim of oral English teaching is to enable the students to obtain the flexible communicative abilities and to deal with all kinds of circumstances involved in using oral English. Oral English testing is a scientific measuring tool. On one hand, it can give the students an objective, accurate and justice judgment of their oral English abilities and on the other hand it can check the effect of oral English teaching and provide the teachers with feedback information, acting as a commanding baton for language teaching.
The skill of reading and writing in a language is not enough for any person. When, we are talking about our mother tongue we learn the speaking spontaneously, but when we are talking about any foreign language the speaking skill has to be earned by practice. Since English is a foreign language, not our mothers tongue. It is difficult for all learns to learn this language perfectly. I think CLT is such an approach that is making the students enthusiastic in learning Speaking English because of its participatory and interacting manner. If English is taught in an easy way by using CLT method, students will be able to learn English more efficiently. In this way Speaking English language will be taught by practicing basic structures in meaningful situation-based activities in the class room. The students of Bangladesh in JSC level are not attentive on speaking because the present situation of question paper in JSC level do not follow proper way. In our education system only two skills are
Introduction
Language testing and teaching can be regarded as twins-they are so closely interrelated that it’s impossible to work in either field without the other one. Language testing can serve to check the achievements of language teaching and at the same time it can exert some wash back effects on teaching, which may be conducive to language teaching or do harm to it. The relationship between oral English testing and teaching is also the same case. The aim of oral English teaching is to enable the students to obtain the flexible communicative abilities and to deal with all kinds of circumstances involved in using oral English. Oral English testing is a scientific measuring tool. On one hand, it can give the students an objective, accurate and justice judgment of their oral English abilities and on the other hand it can check the effect of oral English teaching and provide the teachers with feedback information, acting as a commanding baton for language teaching.
The skill of reading and writing in a language is not enough for any person. When, we are talking about our mother tongue we learn the speaking spontaneously, but when we are talking about any foreign language the speaking skill has to be earned by practice. Since English is a foreign language, not our mothers tongue. It is difficult for all learns to learn this language perfectly. I think CLT is such an approach that is making the students enthusiastic in learning Speaking English because of its participatory and interacting manner. If English is taught in an easy way by using CLT method, students will be able to learn English more efficiently. In this way Speaking English language will be taught by practicing basic structures in meaningful situation-based activities in the class room. The students of Bangladesh in JSC level are not attentive on speaking because the present situation of question paper in JSC level do not follow proper way. In our education system only two skills are