Online Language Proficiency Assessment

ONLINE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENT-page 299 (OLT book)

Summary

The rate of innovations in information technology (IT) has hastened the rise and spread of the English language as an international language for global communication. The profiling of the UKM academicians language proficiency can be conducted for the purpose of placement of English training modules is very valuable indeed. Many limitations with present web-based system especially in the test design and reporting of the scores has been found. Furthermore, it is necessary to be reminded at this junture that the role of English language, at best, is to complement and supplement but never to substitude for or compete with the sociocultural role that have been well imbedded and well enterenched in the national language, Bahasa Malaysia.

COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE TESTING : IS IT PROFITABLE ?

Summary

Computers using has infiltrated many areas of education, including the fields of the language instruction and testing. Computers-assisted testing (CAT) includes any use of the computer that aids in the testing process. We can see that there some advantages about Computerized Adaptive Language Testing (CALT) such sa computer-assisted testing reduces test administrations cost and greatly diminishes the concern for the test security and compromise. However, there also some disadvantages and limitations like the expense of providing a full-scale CAT program, limited screen size and since computers judge responses on a right-wrong basis, computer-assisted testing uses objectively scored item types almost exclusively.Computer-assisted testing (CAT) also have some possible problems.

My experience

I feel quite happy when I learned about this topic. It can show me the important of English language in our studies. Besides, I can learned more about English language and doing practices in the test that had given in the topic. It can improve my English language especially in grammar and writing.