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Communicative Assessment

Communicative assessment focuses on evaluating students' overall language proficiency through tasks that reflect real-world situations. It assesses students' receptive and productive skills across reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Unlike traditional assessment, communicative assessment prioritizes students' ability to complete tasks intelligibly over grammatical accuracy. It can also assess learners of various levels and ages because students see the relevance to real-world language use. However, scoring communicative assessment can be subjective since there are no clear standards for determining if a task was completed correctly.

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Communicative Assessment

Communicative assessment focuses on evaluating students' overall language proficiency through tasks that reflect real-world situations. It assesses students' receptive and productive skills across reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Unlike traditional assessment, communicative assessment prioritizes students' ability to complete tasks intelligibly over grammatical accuracy. It can also assess learners of various levels and ages because students see the relevance to real-world language use. However, scoring communicative assessment can be subjective since there are no clear standards for determining if a task was completed correctly.

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Communicative assessment, or what is commonly called, communicative language

testing, refers to an assessment that reflects learner’s experiences in the outside world
realistically. Brown (2004) argued that in communicative assessment, teachers need to take into
consideration the kinds of real-world tasks that language learners need to perform to determine
the improvement from their learning. One might argue that this kind of assessment focuses more
on students’ overall proficiency. Therefore, reading, writing, listening, and speaking tasks are
often used by teachers in this assessment. In other words, communicative assessment includes
receptive skills and productive skills, both recognition of language and production of language.
Since communicative assessment differs from that of traditional assessment, it leans towards
assessing learners’ intelligibility than on grammatical accuracy since its goal is the successful
completion of the task given to learners, irrespective of how that is achieved.
In addition, one of the most appealing benefits of communicative assessment is that it can
be utilized to assess learners of various level and age. It is because students can see themselves
carrying out similar tasks in the real world, thus relate better to the test and get practical feedback
about real language use in real life situations. This benefit is supported by Dewey (1929) who
established that the best learning for learners is one that reflects their experiences as to give
advantage so they can function better in their social life. In contrast, the major drawback of
communicative assessment is that the there is no clear indicator to determine whether learners’
task is correct or wrong since the test is subjective towards each learner.

Brown, H. D. (2004). Language assessment: Principles and classroom practices. Pearson


Education.
Dewey, J. (1929). The quest for certainty. Minton, Balch and Company.

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