1. Test toward clear, unambiguous objectives. You need to know as specifically as possible what it is you want to test. Carefully list thing that you think your students should "know" or be able to ''do", based on the material that students are responsible for.
2. From your objectives, draw up test specifications. Test specifications for classroom use can be a simple and practical outline of your test.
3. Draft your test. A first draft will give you a good idea of what the test will look like, how students will perceive it (face validity), the extent to which authentic language and contexts are present, the length of the the listening stimuli, how well a story line comes across, how things like the cloze testing format will work, and other practicalities.
4. Revise your test. At this stage, you will work through all the items you have devised and ask a number of important questions:
PRACTICAL LESSON # 1 Three problems methods deals with. The link between methods and pedagogics, linguistics, psychology. Questions for discussion: Compare several viewpoints on Methods as a science.
Give reasons to confirm that Methods is an independent science.
Methods possesses its own field of research. True of false?
Methods is interrelated with other sciences and is fed by them. In what way?
Methods utilizes various kinds of scientific investigation. Consider the kinds you find justifiable.
Questions for discussion: Compare the syllabi for different types of schools as to what they have in common and in what they differ.
There are three main aims in teaching a foreign language in schools. Name them and say whether you
consider them justifiable. Support your statement.
What is the content of teaching ? Do authors whose works you have read interpret it adequately? Give some
examples.
Compare several approaches to the fundamental principles foreign language teaching should be based upon
and name the specific principles which, you think, must be observed in teaching this subject in schools.
Are aims, content and principles interrelated? If so, show this interrelation.
