Computer-based Language Testing

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: 10 University of Paderborn course: Einführung in die Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien: Electronic Tools and Resources for Linguists language: English abstract: Testing is an important part of language teaching. Tests can be used to place students in courses according to their knowledge to diagnose their strengths and weaknesses to identify their proficiency etc. There are many theories about what tests should analyse and how they should be taken. Depending on the relevance of the results tests need to be more or less accurate. Furthermore they should have a beneficial backwash on teaching. It is thus at least as important to examine testing itself.