Testing Oral Communication: Why and How?.

Calderbank, Mark; Awwad, Muhammad

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Publication Date: 1988

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Testing Oral Communication: Why and How?

Calderbank, Mark; Awwad, Muhammad

System, v16 n1 p49-59 1988

Discusses the issue of oral communication tests through an account of an oral test administered to nearly 1,000 students at Yarmouk University Language Center. The ways in which the institution attempted to overcome problems in the oral test's feasibility, validity, and reliability are presented. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Test Format, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Testing Problems

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