HOW TO TEST

VOCABULARY
Jose Gildardo Prieto Fuentes
Abraham Perez Lopez
Nicole Villanueva
 WHY HOW
● Motivate learners ● There are many ways

● Provides a form of feedback ● Multiple choice tasks, Gap-fill tasks

● Make an useful backwash effects ● Games

● Show us how much knowledge students ● When testing vocabulary, avoid testing
have words in isolation
MULTIPLE REASONS
CHOICE
TASK -Easy to score
-Easy to design

-Isolated words

-Words in a sentence

-Words in whole text

Odd one and out
 NEGATIVE QUESTIONS
● Ex.

"Which of the following statements about the moon is NOT true?

1. (A) The moon is inhabited.

2. (B) The moon orbits the Earth.
3. (C) The moon is full of craters."
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GAP-FILL
TASKS
Gap-fill tasks

● Is a practice exercise

● Memory

● Contrast with cloze texts

Reading Gap
Fill Practice
 References

 Great Schools Partnership. (11 de 10 de 2015). Obtenido de The Glossary of Education:

https://www.edglossary.org/assessment/

 IELTS. (s.f.). Obtenido de IELTS PREPARATION: https://www.ieltsbuddy.com/reading-gap-

fill.html

 SIEGEL, L. (17 de July de 2019). BridgeTEFL is a division of Bridge Education Group, Inc.
Obtenido de https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/teach-esl-vocabulary/