| Title | : | Notes on Assessing Speaking |
| Authors | : | Barry O’Sullivan |
With all language skill testing, it is necessary to clearly state the specifications before beginning to write the test (just as the previous sections have stated). In his very pragmatic ‘Understanding and Developing Language Tests’ Cyril Weir (1993) presents an approach to skills testing which calls for the identification of a series of language operations which the skill in question will entail. In addition to this list, Weir suggests that we need a set of conditions under which the task will be performed. Together these will allow the test writer to establish the parameters of the task or tasks to be employed in the test. Weir (2005) updated his original ideas and this later framework adds greatly to our conceptualisation of how all four skills can be tested and validated. In the following sections we will be looking at the testing of the four language skills in terms of Weir’s 2005 framework.
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