Approaches to Assessment

Discrete-Point and Integrative Testing

Discrete-Point tests

constructed on the assumptions that language can be broken into component parts that can be tested successfully

are

Listening

Writing

Speaking

Reading

e.g

Phonology

Graphology

Morphology

Lexicon

Syntax

Discourse

and units of language

Decontextualization

i.e.

Integrative testing

The integration of communicative competence without capturing discrete points of language through additive tests

is

Dictation

e.g.

an evolved testing technique that take part in integration because it taps into grammatical and discourse components required for other modes of performance in a language

which is

Unitary trait hypothesis

There is a general factor of language proficiency that cannot be added up to a whole

says

however