Bridging the gap: using communicative language testing to assess real-world language skills

Abstract

Communicative     Language Testing has to be applicable for four language skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing. Language assessment has an important role in monitoring the progress of language learning. Assessment of productive skills that occurs in the classroom is to be considered specific language skills in real world contact. Language assessment is not only to measure its performance and the language skills of the students and to monitor the progress of the students, but also to identify the difficulties of the students in learning the target language. This observation is focusing on the assessment of students' communicative competence, since hospitality students learn English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The objective of hospitality students learns English is to be able to apply their knowledge to meaningful communicative situations based on the students demand and their real world required.