Modern Approaches to FL Skills Testing (Students-linguists)

Student: Zubkova Viktoria

Educational Programme: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

Our work is devoted to the topical problem of assessing foreign language proficiency of students-linguists. We studied the notion of control in teaching foreign languages, analysed the criteria of test usefulness, investigated the process of test development and studied the features of integrated tasks as a tool of language proficiency assessment. In the practical part of our research we analysed the set of competencies that students of Masters Degree in linguistics have to possess. We also studied target language use tasks that they are faced with. Considering the result of our analysis, bearing in mind the existing models of foreign language proficiency and the principles of test development, we created and tries out an effective test, aimed at comprehensively measuring foreign language proficiency of students who major in linguistics.

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