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5.4. The test-types listed above
are those which teachers and testees
commonly use at the moment. They
represent an unstructured shopping
list of what is available to the test
designer to choose. When the choice
is made, what matters is not whether
the test-type is overtly ‘communi-
cative’ but whether it will actually do
the job it is intended to do. Is it
appropriate to the ‘WHO’ and the
‘WHY' and the resultant ‘WHEN’
and ‘WHAT’?
The overall message, then, is
horses for courses, but for those
readers interested in an examination
of langugage proficiency that is
founded on communicative princi-
ples, I recommend a look at the Uni-
versity of Cambridge Examinations
in the Communicative Use of En-
glish These are based on research
into what people actually do with
language in real-iife, with test-types,
topic areas, language function, for-
mats and marking procedures de-
fined accordingly, Ihey may not en-
tirely qualify for the label communi-
cative, but they represent a number
of significant steps in the right direc-
tion,
D.A.
February 1989
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