Evaluating Language Proficiency MCQ Quiz in मराठी - Objective Question with Answer for Evaluating Language Proficiency - मोफत PDF डाउनलोड करा

Proficiency tests are designed to assess the language abilities of students in real-world situations, or in other words, how well they can use the language in practice, not just in theory.

Key Points

• A proficiency test measures the level of language that learners have reached.
• It evaluates their ability to use the language effectively in various contexts, including speaking, listening, reading, and writing. 
• It is typically designed to evaluate the student's ability to perform tasks or produce language in a range of contexts and situations that they are likely to encounter in the future.
• This can include tasks such as writing an email, giving a presentation, or understanding a lecture.
• The results of a proficiency test can provide valuable information about a student's readiness to perform real-world tasks in the language, and can be used to guide further instruction or study.

Hence, a proficiency test always assesses the level of language that learners have reached.

Assessment is the process of evaluating, measuring, and documenting a person's knowledge, skills, or performance in a particular area.

Key Points

• The ability to use the second language in different contexts should be emphasized in assessing second language proficiency.
• Second language proficiency involves not only the ability to use correct grammar and spelling, but also the ability to communicate effectively in various situations and contexts.
• Proficiency in a language means having a functional command over all four language skills, which include speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Therefore, an assessment of second language proficiency should evaluate the learner's ability to use the language in real-life situations, communicate effectively, and understand and interpret messages accurately.

Hence, it is clear that the ability to use the second language in different contexts should be emphasized in assessing second language proficiency.

Questioning Skills refer to one’s ability to formulate and respond to questions about situations, objects, concepts, and ideas. Questions may derive from oneself or from other people. 

Key Points

Extrapolative questions:

• Extrapolation refers to the idea when someone makes a guess or hypothesis based on previous knowledge or experiences.
• An extrapolative question is a question that needs imagination and prediction thus it requires learners to move beyond the given inputs like reading text.
• Extrapolative questions require observing a present situation to guess what might eventually happen and making a conclusion about the hypothetical situation based on known information.
• For example, a teacher asks a learner to imagine you are the character in the story and write a letter to your friend expressing your feelings.

Thus, it is concluded that a question that enables learners to move beyond the given inputs like reading text is known as an extrapolative question.

Hint

• Creative writing question requires creating unique ideas that are imaginative and innovative. It improves students' ability to come up with alternatives.
• Inferential questions require answers that require contextual clues. Inferential questions are difficult to answer because they can have more than one correct answer.

Modes of learning are as important as the content. High performance achieved through rote memorization is not preferred in evaluating the growth of the pupils.

• We use some procedures and techniques to collect data about pupil progress and growth to determine the extent to which these varied learning objectives have been achieved. 

Key Points

• Measurement of any aspect of an object or phenomenon is its quantitative description.
• Measurement refers to the process by which the attributes or dimensions of some object or phenomena are quantified.
• More precisely, measurement is defined as the assignment of numerals to objects or events according to rules.

Hints

• Assessment is a process by which information is obtained relative to some known objective or goal.
• Evaluation refers to the value judgment made on the phenomenon, taking into consideration the quantitative and/or the qualitative information collected on it over a particular period of time.

Hence, we conclude that measurement is a quantitative description.

Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation:

• CCE has been recommended as an internal school-based system of assessment by different policy documents over the past many decades that could provide information on a child’s overall development in a continuous and comprehensive manner.

Key Points

Characteristics of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation:

• CCE aimed to evaluate every aspect of the child during their presence in the school.
• It was assumed that CCE would help in reducing the exam pressure on the child.
• Multiple exams would be scheduled throughout the year, without the repetition of the syllabus. It was assumed to bring tremendous change in the traditional chalk and talk method of teaching if implemented correctly.
• As part of this system, students’ marks were replaced by grades that were evaluated through a series of extracurricular evaluations and academics.
• The intention was to decrease the student’s workload utilizing continuous evaluation by taking several small tests throughout the year in place of a single test at the end of the academic program.
• Students were awarded grades based on their work, skills, dexterity, innovation, steadiness, teamwork, public speaking, and behavior.
• It aimed to evaluate and present an overall measure of the student’s ability. CCE helped the students who were not competent enough in academics.
• CCE provided them a platform to showcase their talent in other fields like sports, music, arts, and other creative fields.

Hence, CCE increases the workload on students by taking multiple tests, is not a characteristic of continuous and comprehensive evaluation.​​

Proficiency refers to the idea of how much of a foreign language a person knows. It is the general language skill or expertness of the learner, irrespective of the training he may have had. Accuracy and fluency are the two elements involved in language proficiency as explained below:

• The capability through which the learner correctly pronounces a sentence, while using the correct grammar and terminology is called accuracy.
• The level of accuracy of a child at primary level is different from that of an adult.
• At each and every level, a child learns language by committing mistakes.
• A child’s errors help her in learning and simultaneously even while committing error she is following the rules of language.
• In reference to the learning proficiency, fluency means the ability through which a child is spontaneously able to express herself by speaking, reading and writing. In this, emphasis is laid on meaning and context rather than on grammatical errors.

Hence, we conclude that fluency and accuracy involved in language proficiency.

Reading is an important skill because text and other reading materials are most widely used in instruction. Assessment of students’ abilities to read and learn from textbooks in specific subjects is an important indicator for teachers

Cloze Test: Cloze tests are easy to construct and can be used conveniently in many content classrooms. 

• It is used for assessing content area reading ability, a cloze test is constructed by selecting a reading passage with words missing at regular intervals, which could be the fifth or the seventh word.
• Cloze reading exercises are short passages or paragraphs where you supply the missing words which have been removed from the test's passage. 
• A minimum of 40-50 blanks is suggested. 
• Each blank space should be numbered for scoring. Finally, prepare an answer sheet showing the exact missing word in the original passage.
• Cloze tests can measure subjects' language proficiency and reading ability for language learning
• A Cloze Reading Test can be referred to as a "deletion test", as keywords in the passage are left blank or deleted for you to fill in.

Hence, we can conclude that 'Cloze' means missing part.

Assessment is a process of collecting, receiving, and using data for the purpose of improvement in the learning process. It is one of the crucial components of the teaching-learning process.​

Key Points

Ability to use language in different contexts should be emphasized upon for the assessment of language proficiency.

• Language is a very complex phenomenon, the type of sentence construction and selection of words differ from context to context.
• Therefore, the ability to use language in different contexts would help to reflect on the understanding of the language in the process of evaluation.
• Contextualization means providing a context to facilitate language learning in class. The child already has some background knowledge or schemas, so the context should be placed in relation to his/her own context.
• It is based on the fact that language is used to refer to a particular context or situation. It is very important in language teaching classrooms to create situations that make the learners use the known words and sentences. 

Hence, it could be concluded that the ability to use language in different contexts should be emphasized upon for the assessment of language proficiency.

Hint

• Project work, correct pronunciation, and correct vocabulary do not fall into the primary objectives of language learning. however, it is more important to use language in different contexts - social, political and liberal.

The correct answer is: "Measure the students' proficiency".

Key Points

• The five parts of language learning are:
  • Listening
  • Comprehension
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Writing
• If the student is able to perform successfully in all these skills, it shows that he or she is proficient in the language.

Thus the correct answer is "Measure the students' proficiency". 

Listening is a physical and mental process, which requires both attention to the source of the sound and the need to make sense of the sounds heard. Listening is not passively following the other side; it is an effort to receive and interpret the message for the communication to be fully realized. 

Key Points

Followings are some great activities in which teachers can evaluate students listening skills:

• Listen and Draw: this particular activity can be used with students who struggle to express themselves in English, Listen and Draw isolates listening from speaking. Simply have your students take out a blank piece of paper and give them instructions on what to draw. 
• Dictations: with this activity, the teacher can easily evaluate students listening skills. The teacher just needs to select a couple of words and then call the words one by one and repeat at least once after calling the words. After calling all the words which the students have to write on a separate piece of paper. The teacher collects the papers and from there he can start evaluating each student based on their listening comprehension. 
• Oral Presentations: It is more viewed in academic courses where the test takers have to talk about a given or selected topic, nevertheless, that doesn’t mean that it cannot be used to assess other learners. Scoring is also easy because the test-taker speaks about a specific topic. 
• Another great task is Giving Instructions and Directions: in our daily routine, we are called to read instructions on how to operate things, for example how to operate an appliance or put a bookshelf together. The same is used to check students listening comprehension skills.

Hint

• Picture-Cued Task, Vocabulary Assessment Tasks, Ordering Tasks, Short-Answer, and Sentence Completion Tasks, are some of the other tasks used to assess writing.

Hence, we can conclude that the vocabulary assessment task is not the activity of evaluating listening skills.