Starting this term, I'm going to be making a number of improvements to the Junior High School NELP Oral Communication Final Exams.
Starting this term, the tests will be 25% longer, going from 60 questions to 75. Tests will have five parts, 15 questions each:
1. Comprehension. Students will be given a target sentence, followed by four choices: a, b, c and d. Students must choose the answer that has the same meaning as the target sentence. This is good for testing comprehension of vocabulary and grammar structures.
2. Response. Students will be given, alternately, a sentence or a question followed by four possible responses. Students must choose the response that best follows the question or statement they hear.
3. Completion. Students must choose the answer that best completes the target fragment.
4. Conversation. Students must listen to a conversation between two people and answer questions about it.
5. Short Talks. Students must listen to short passages such as statements, announcements, etc., and then answer questions about it.
Parts 1 through 3 will be listening only. For Parts 4 and 5, the questions and answers will be in their test booklets.
Date: 2009⁄11⁄19 09:16|Permalink|Author:nelp