It is commonly know that teaching and testing are two
inseparable things, teaching speaking
is a process of presenting or introducing learning material for certain
instruction objective. In other to know whether the instruction objective can
be achieved by the student or not, we need to test them in other words, testing
a process of measuring how far and how well the instruction have been mastered
by the students.
Language test can be classified based on the
domain of testing whether it is writing, reading, listening, and speaking. In
this part of discussion I want to review oral production test that is test for
speaking there are five component to be judged :
1.
Pronunciation
2.
Grammar
3.
Vocabulary
4.
Fluency
5.
Comprehention
Looking at the five component of oral production test we
might be on the same saying that testing speaking is very complex. It is
reasonable because we judge the entire of components at the same time.
Most test of oral production fall into of following
categories :
1.
Relatively
unstructured interview, rated on s carefully constructed scale.
2.
Highly
structured speech sample ( generally recorded ), rated according to very
specific evidence of speaking ability.
3.
Paper
and pencil objective test of pronunciation, presumably providing indirect
evidence of speaking ability.
( David P. Harris,1969:83 )
The most
commonly test in measuring speaking nowadays use interview technique. The
teacher should create to allow the testes relax in a friendship atmosphere. The
testes could use their evaluation of his competence in the spoken language. It
must be ( 1 ) a set qualities to related and ( 2 ) a series of possible
ratings.
