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Oral Testing: Assessing the Language Learner's Ability to Process Discourse.
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Lombardo, Linda – 1985
One teacher's experience with traditional language tests suggested that the tests did not reflect the kind of communicative language learning going on in the classroom and might be counterproductive. As a result, an experiment in oral testing was undertaken in which examinees were required to process natural discourse and to relate language to…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education