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AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT PRACTICES
O'tkirova Latofat Sur'at kizi
Teacher. Department of Oriental Languages
Oriental University. Tashkent Uzbekistan
Annotation:
The overarching aim of this paper is to discuss some fundamental issues in second
language assessment to provide classroom practitioners with knowledge to improve their test
development skills. This research is to discuss some fundamental issues in language assessment
to provide classroom practitioners with knowledge to improve their test development skills.
Index Terms –
assessment, Formative evaluation, Illuminative evaluation, summative evaluation,
Interpretation, mode.
INTRODUCTION
An important perspective is the use of vocabulary within particular contexts of use or registers,
and recent corpus research is extending our understanding of the lexical features of academic
registers. This provides a basis for assessing learners’ ability to deploy their vocabulary
knowledge effectively for functional communication in specific academic contexts. It is
concluded that, while current tests of vocabulary knowledge are valuable for certain purposes,
they need to be complemented by more contextualized measures of vocabulary use.
For classroom assessment, Scientists categorized it according to intention, purpose, interpretation,
and administration. In regard to intention, an assessment can be informal when it is a
spontaneous comment, or it can be formal when it is carried out in a systematic manner? In terms
of purpose, an assessment can be formative if it focuses on the process of learning or it can be
summative when it is used to measure student learning outcomes at the end of an education cycle.
An assessment may be used to compare students’ performance with their peers’ performance
(norm-referenced) or it may be employed to compare students’ performance with the course
content (criterion-referenced). Mihai (ibid) clarified that “whereas norm-referenced tests evaluate
students in terms of their ranking to another, criterion referenced tests evaluate students in terms
of their mastery of course content”. The last category of assessment is administration which
refers to the way an assessment is administered or delivered; an assessment may be classroom-
based (small scale) when it is only used in the classroom or it can be delivered statewide or
nationwide (large scale)
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Evaluation. In discussing about language program evaluation, presented three types of evaluation:
Formative
Illuminative
summative evaluation.
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Laufer, B. & Goldstein, Z. (2004), ‘Testing Vocabulary Knowledge: Size, Strength, and
Computer Adaptiveness’, Language Learning, vol. 54, nº3, pp. 339-436.
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Formative evaluation, as Richards pointed out, is utilized to find out the aspects of a program
that are working well, not working well, and issues that need to be addressed.
Illuminative evaluation, according to Richards, is employed to find out how different aspects of a
program are implemented and this type of evaluation is one way to seek to have “a deeper
understanding of the process of teaching and learning that occur in the program, without
necessarily seeking to change the course in any way as a result”
Summative evaluation, the kind of evaluation most teachers and administrators are familiar with,
is concerned with determining the effectiveness, efficiency, and to some extent the acceptability
of a language program.
Assessment, moreover, can be conducted by either speaking or writing. Therefore, one more
category of assessment may be added to those provided: mode (oral or written).
III METHODOLOGY
In order to develop the assessment with vocabulary tasks for students selected as an experiment,
lessons were conducted using vocabulary activities to check learners’ knowledge on the process.
Materials of this study encourage teachers to use different test techniques such as vocabulary
tests in order to enhance vocabulary knowledge of learners through assessment. The present
study also can help teachers to decide upon which of this method is more useful.
Descriptive-analytical (observational) method in the process of highlighting the essence and
significance of scientific work, comparative method in order to compare the results of
experimental work and find a clear solution; prognostic (expert assessment, generalization of
independent assessments), pedagogical experimental and mathematical methods (statistical data
processing) were used to provide evidence based on exact figures in the future application of the
results and analysis of its initial results as well as illuminating parts of the discovery and the
result.
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
The researcher's qualitative approach is used in observation sheets. It is designed to observe the
entire lessons in detail. In addition, needs assessment is structured to consider the needs, desires
and attitudes of learners towards the teaching of group work. Pre and post-tests consist of lessons
in reading skills. At the start of the teaching process, the pre-test is taken and the post-test is
taken at the end of the learning process. Experimental courses were used to perform the present
research. First, before beginning to work with them and having pre and post-tests, the researcher
wanted to observe some lessons from experimental courses in order to compare the findings at
the end of the study. And the analysis of the obtained results is shown in this diagram. Many
students ’needs in developing vocabulary are related to shaping their skills. The greatest need for
vocabulary is the need to understand communication and text content.
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Schoonen, R., & Verhallen, M. (in press). The assessment of deep word knowledge in young
first and second language learners. To appear in Language Testing.
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Figure 1. Students vocabulary knowledge results after assessment
The data shows about learners’ knowledge on vocabulary and 4 pupils had excellent reading base
while the most 8 of them had good knowledge. However, 5 pupils had satisfactory qualification
on reading whereas 3 pupils had bad degree of reading skills. But no one had too bad degree on
that. The analysis was conducted on quantitative questions to understand students ’perceptions
of vocabulary use in English language classes and in an English context language classroom in a
defined level. To this end, the questionnaires were analyzed in detail.
The results show that assessing with vocabulary tests (during the teaching) method, shows that
students vocabulary knowledge have increased through vocabulary tests assessment, while the
results show surprisingly large changes.
IV. RESULTS
The test results show that learners showed high results in mastering vocabulary within their
topics by organizing training using vocabulary tests in assessment, as well as a variety of
vocabulary tasks through different approaches in the assessment process. The application of
different types of interactive methods through the consolidation of learners' knowledge was
demonstrated in the research process.
After calculating the result of the students score, the mean score and standard deviation of both
types learning classes can be presented in the following figure:
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Figure 2. Results of Two classes
Any situation dictionary serves to make human speech fluent and increase the diversity of speech.
Because Vocabulary tasks can be used to show the grammatically correct use of words, blind
memorization of words is less effective and is quickly forgotten. Therefore, regular and
systematic use of vocabulary tests by learners in the assessment process will always have a
positive effect, and by applying it to life, the pronunciation of words will be improved. It is also
important to develop students' vocabulary skills.
DISCUSSION
It is clear that Assessment is an integral part of any education system and plays an important role
in English as a foreign language context. One of the components of language that is difficult for
test writers is a dictionary, without which the reader will not be able to understand or
communicate in a foreign language. Vocabulary or vocabulary repertoire is a key component of
language knowledge, as well as an important component of communicative competence and
serves as an important element for production and comprehension in a second language.
Vocabulary task is necessary for students to build a large repertoire of vocabulary when learning
a language because people with large concluding remarks, the review of common assessment
options discussed above has shown that the knowledge and skills needed for designing practical,
authentic, reliable, and valid tests are likely to be real challenges for most classroom teachers
who are seldom fully trained to construct quality tests.
CONCLUSION
To sum up, vocabulary test is considered as an apparent example of the indirect method
mentioned above, and it refers to the processes and procedures used by the tester to obtain
information about the optimal performance of stakeholders or typical performance of individuals.
Different kinds of tests, from multiple-choice to gap filling, have been used to assess vocabulary
knowledge in different levels of proficiency; however, the current study will mainly focus on
selected response or Multiple Choice format and Constructed Response format. The results of the
research also show that this type of vacubulary-based tests and assignments used in the process
of assessing the knowledge of students that learners, is very relevant and effective, regular
assessment of their knowledge skills indicators.
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