Re: proficiency versus achievement testing

The greatest problem with testing a language skill is not lack of knowlege of 
the language itself but the lack of knowledge of anything worth talking about. 
If you get no information from the news and have no knowlege of anything except 
getting up early, doing  morning exerises, eating breakfast,  and learning a 
new word before class, you have nothng to talk about even if you have skills 
and a memorized vocabulary which you can never use because nothing ever 
happened or it happened a thousand years ago and is not interesting to talk 
about.
   
elizabeth tripp 




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