LLCU 424 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pragmatics, Oneword, Language Pedagogy

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Foreign Languages and Literatures
• Course: LLCU 424
• Professor: Dr. Tomas McCone

Document Summary

An example would be the multiple picture-cued information transfer assessment (page 169) The majority of the time, assessment of a particular skill involves the integration of at least two skills. There is no such thing as a test of grammar or vocab that does not invoke one or more of the separate skills of listening, speaking, reading, or writing. Grammar and vocab tests require that target language words and sentences be read and sometimes that words tilling in a blank be written. In fact, no linguistic forms at all can be disassociated from a mode of performance. All assessment of receptive performance (reading and listening) must be made by inference. The process of listening and reading performance itself is the invisible, inaudible process of internalizing meaning from auditory or visual cues which is not directly observable. Performance can be affected by other outside factors (illness, emotional distraction, etc. )