Durairajan, Geetha
(2016)
Assessing and testing learners’
language proficiency.
Language and Language Teaching, 5 (1).
pp. 52-56.
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
As living social beings, we spend a large part of our lives either conversing with people, reading something written by others, or writing about something to someone. Every time we listen to what is said or read what has been written, we subconsciously evaluate what has been stated.This instinctive evaluation includes the language capability or proficiency of the person we are interacting with. We tell ourselves, at least in our minds: “good writer”, “speaks well”. We evaluate those we interact with, but such an evaluation is unconscious and instinctive; without
it no conversation or correspondence between any two people would be possible. The evaluation of the language capability of a person is not mandatory, but the evaluation of what is said is essential.
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