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Uses Of English Language Tests By The O-level English Language Teachers In Zanzibar In Promoting English Language Learning
Abstract Category: Education
Course / Degree: BA Education
Institution / University: The State University of Zanzibar, Tanzania
Published in: 2007
This study investigated how the O - level English teachers use tests in their day to day teaching of English language in schools. The main objectives of the study were:
• Identifying types of language testing used in the English language classes by the Zanzibar English language teachers.
• Assessing the effects of the English language testing prepared by the English teachers themselves in the classes to the English language teaching process in Zanzibar.
• Finding out the perceptions of the Zanzibar O-Level English language teachers on the reasons of testing their learners.
• Assessing the place of home-works and class-works in testing English language to the English learners in Zanzibar schools. A survey research method was used in this study. The area of study was the Zanzibar Urban District. Through a purposeful sampling, all the O-level English teachers in the District were the respondents .Method used to collect data from the respondents was a questionnaire only. It was discovered in the study that
• Both oral and written forms of tests are used by the teachers.
• New students are not pre-tested for placement.
• Pre-testing of students on a new topic is not done, and so teachers do not know what the learners know about such topic before instructions.
• Teachers diagnose their learners’ strengths and weaknesses in the learning process through oral and written exercises.
• Teachers use much diagnostic, achievement and summative form of testing, and rarely use placement.
• Written exercises are mostly used to check learners’ progress in the learning process.
• Teachers believe that tests help much in the teaching process from the students to the teachers themselves.
• Teachers believe that there are also negative impacts of tests to the students like anxiety to the students, fears and make them forget other subjects.
• Teachers mainly test their students for getting marks for assessments, checking students’ progress, finding students strengths and weaknesses in the learning process, and for evaluating their teaching practices.
Thesis Keywords/Search Tags:
Langauge tests, Language learning
This Thesis Abstract may be cited as follows:
Muhammed, S. A. The use of English Language Tests by the O-level English Language Teachers in Zanzibar in Promoting English Language Learning. A Project Report Submitted to the State University of Zanzibar, 2007.
Submission Details: Thesis Abstract submitted by Shehe Muhammed from Tanzania on 12-Jun-2011 22:42.
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Shehe Muhammed Contact Details: Email: shehemuhamed@yahoo.co.uk
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