Designing a new foreign language test requires defining what we mean by language and language use (Bachman, 1990). The construct that we use is the cornerstone guiding us when we create original test items and when we design the general architecture of the test. What are the characteristics of the intended test-takers? What do we take 'communicative competence' to be? How can we translate all of this into test items that will be administered online? The Common European Framework of Reference for languages (henceforward CEFR) can guide us but cannot tell us how to anchor our items to the descriptors of each of the skill levels while staying true to task-based and actionoriented approaches to language teaching, and to the role of the learner as a social actor (ALTE, 2011; Weir, 2004).

Defining, modeling and piloting SELF, a new formative assessment test for foreign languages / Cervini, Cristiana; Masperi, Monica; Jouannaud, Marie-Pierre; Scanu, Francesca. - STAMPA. - (2013), pp. 55-60. (Intervento presentato al convegno Language testing in Europe: Time for a new framework? tenutosi a Anversa nel 29-31 maggio 2012).

Defining, modeling and piloting SELF, a new formative assessment test for foreign languages

CERVINI, CRISTIANA;
2013

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Designing a new foreign language test requires defining what we mean by language and language use (Bachman, 1990). The construct that we use is the cornerstone guiding us when we create original test items and when we design the general architecture of the test. What are the characteristics of the intended test-takers? What do we take 'communicative competence' to be? How can we translate all of this into test items that will be administered online? The Common European Framework of Reference for languages (henceforward CEFR) can guide us but cannot tell us how to anchor our items to the descriptors of each of the skill levels while staying true to task-based and actionoriented approaches to language teaching, and to the role of the learner as a social actor (ALTE, 2011; Weir, 2004).
2013
Language Testing in Europe: Time for a New Framework?
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Defining, modeling and piloting SELF, a new formative assessment test for foreign languages / Cervini, Cristiana; Masperi, Monica; Jouannaud, Marie-Pierre; Scanu, Francesca. - STAMPA. - (2013), pp. 55-60. (Intervento presentato al convegno Language testing in Europe: Time for a new framework? tenutosi a Anversa nel 29-31 maggio 2012).
Cervini, Cristiana; Masperi, Monica; Jouannaud, Marie-Pierre; Scanu, Francesca
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