Questão 1850600

Read the following definitions of tests.

Proficiency tests aim to determine learner’s overal ability in a language and are not related to any training they might have had.

Diagnostic tests help teachers discover learners’ linguistic strength and developmental needs.

Achievement tests typically come at the end of language courses and try to determine whether a learner has been successful at achieving the aims of the course. They can also be used to evaluate the course itself.

Placement tests are tipically used at the beginning of a course. Their aim is to give a teacher or an institution a lingusitic profile of a learner that will allow them to place the learner at an appropriate point in the learning programme.

THAINE, C. Teacher Trainign Essentials. Workshops for professional development. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. p. 103. [Adaptado].

A group of students have finished units 1-4 of a coursebook and their teacher wants to know how well her students have mastered the content. Based on this situation and the definitions of tests above, the teacher will use the