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		<title>What is meant by automaticity and automatization?</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/29/what-is-meant-by-automaticity-and-automatization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[automatic

largely or wholly involuntary, 				especially as with a reflex
acting or done spontaneously or 				unconsciously

automatize

to make automatic [noun 				derivations: automatization the process of making 				automatic; automaticity the state or condition of being 				automatic]

In some literature, the word automization is used rather 			than automatization.
For our purposes as teachers, automatization is the process of making language processing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliography: testing</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/20/a-testing-bibliography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
 Alderson J C &#38; Hughes A [Eds] [1991] Language Testing in the 1990s [Basingstoke: Macmillan]
 Alderson J C, Clapham C &#38; Wall D [1995] Language Test Construction and Evaluation [Cambridge: CUP]
 Alderson J C &#38; Wall D [1993] Does Washback Exist? [In Applied Linguistics Volume 14.2]
 Bachman L [1990] Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing tests</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/20/writing-tests/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/20/writing-tests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Easier said than done. A test writer has very few friends and often finds that it is impossible to do the job to everyone&#8217;s satisfaction.
But it is clear that it is imperative for test writers to be very clear in their own minds what it is that they want to test and what the purpose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A short history of testing</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/18/a-short-history-of-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/18/a-short-history-of-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Lado]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is useful to view testing from a historical perspective for two reasons:
 It enables us to relate current developments in the field to what has preceded them.
 Methods of testing rarely die out, but are more often than not adapted or continue to exist in modified forms in different parts of the world. Although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Relationship Between Testing and Teaching</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/18/unit-five-the-relationship-between-testing-and-teaching/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/18/unit-five-the-relationship-between-testing-and-teaching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two questıons to ponder:
1. The effect of a   test on teaching or learning is known as washback [or backwash in testing in   the USA]. [Alderson and   Wall, 1993: 17]
The backwash hypothesis seems to assume that teachers and learners do things they would not necessarily otherwise do because of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Considerations: Reliability, Validity, and Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/18/practical-considerations-reliability-validity-and-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[These are crucial aspects of testing. There is perhaps a constant dynamic tension and balance between validity and reliability. Validity is perhaps the central quality. Reliability is a necessary but not sufficient condition for validity: valid tests are necessarily reliable, but reliable tests are not necessarily valid.

A test is said to be valid when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Approaches to testing: direct and indirect testing</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/18/approaches-to-testing-direct-and-indirect-testing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Having established the purpose of a test (see the post: Types of test - why are we testing?), other factors will then affect the general approach. Whereas in the past the focus was almost exclusively on the techniques of testing, how to test, the main issues and concerns in testing today are much more to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Types of test - why are we testing?</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/18/types-of-test-why-are-we-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/18/types-of-test-why-are-we-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fundamental to any discussion of testing is the purpose of the test. If you don&#8217;t know why you are testing, then you probably shouldn&#8217;t be testing in the first place. The appropriateness of a test in any given context will depend to a large extent on the reason the test is being given and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing - some things to mull over&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/18/testing-some-things-to-mull-over/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/18/testing-some-things-to-mull-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Think back to your own experience as a language learner and ponder these questions:

Why were you tested?
How did you feel about being tested?
What happened as a result of tests?

What is the purpose of the tests that you set your learners?

What happens as a result of these tests?
In your experience, how do learners feel about being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dictogloss</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/10/dictogloss/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/10/dictogloss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In dictogloss, learners work in cooperative groups to recreate a text that has either been read aloud to the class by the teacher or presented as an audio recording.
What is the purpose of dictogloss?

To introduce key words and target lexical items at the beginning of a work sequence or task.
To encourage learners to focus on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babel placement test</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/07/babel-placement-test-is-here/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/07/babel-placement-test-is-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to offer, as an Open Source project, the Babel Placement Test.  You may use the test for whatever you like, you may alter it, edit it and even burn it if you like, see: creativecommons.org -Attribution-Share Alike 3.0.
The Babel English Language Placement Test was closely based on the Nelson Quickcheck Placement [...]]]></description>
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