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Department of Motor Vehicles is a great example

three dimension of learning: cognitive, psychomotor, and affective (or knowledge, skills, and disposition).

Dr. Graham said modern day testing only looks at the cognitive aspect.

there is a valuable place for them. If results inform instruction and tell the teacher that a student does not have basic skills in some area deemed essential, isn't that important to know for intervention to be provided? The era of "passing the buck" is gone.

We have misused and abused standardized tests to a point where we've lost site of the purpose of testing.

Teachers would say, "Just do your best and keep in mind that the test does not count for anything."

Are we helping students and teachers with our assessment practices, or contributing to their problems?"

In reality, what most teachers and students seem to lose sight of is the fact that ‘knowledge of the grammatical system of a language [grammatical competence] has to be complemented by understanding (sic) of culture-specific meanings [communicative or rather cultural competence]’ (Byram, Morgan et al., 1994: 4).

Culture in language learning is not an expendable fifth skill, tacked on, so to speak, to the teaching of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. It is always in the background, right from day one, ready to unsettle the good language learners when they expect it least, making evident the limitations of their hard-won communicative competence, challenging their ability to make sense of the world around them. (Kramsch, 1993: 1)

According to them, the teaching of culture has the following goals and is of and in itself a means of accomplishing them: To help students to develop an understanding of the fact that all people exhibit culturally-conditioned behaviours. To help students to develop an understanding that social variables such as age, sex, social class, and place of residence influence the ways in which people speak and behave. To help students to become more aware of conventional behaviour in common situations in the target culture. To help students to increase their awareness of the cultural connotations of words and phrases in the target language. To help students to develop the ability to evaluate and refine generalizations about the target culture, in terms of supporting evidence. To help students to develop the necessary skills to locate and organize information about the target culture. To stimulate students’ intellectual curiosity about the target culture, and to encourage empathy towards its people.

the communicative approach can leave students in suspense as to the outcome of a class exercise, which will vary according to their reactions and responses.

Students' motivation to learn comes from their desire to communicate in meaningful ways about meaningful topics.

They are responding in German to a question in German. They do not know the answers beforehand, as they are each holding cards with their new identities written on them; hence, there is an authentic exchange of information.

A learning disabled student …

Use these appropriate strategies with learning disabled students:

Present tests and reading materials in an oral format so the assessment is not unduly influenced by lack of reading ability.

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