This book gives both language teachers and learners an opportunity to work with teaching and testing activities due to the fact that teaching and testing are closely related to each other. In fact, what makes students perform better in their grammar tests is their ability to use context as well as their grammatical knowledge in order to act more communicatively within their teaching curriculum, so the current book aims to determine whether the use of "cloze tests" is more effective than the "multiple-choice tests" in developing the EFL learners' knowledge of grammar, to provide some...

The interaction between the text and the reader is enhanced by using a technique called reading-logs that are some diary-like forms must be filled out by learners while reading the story. Using reading-logs can be a very efficient way of dealing with students' interactions with the text and is in fact the practical application of the reader-response theory. Reading -logs technique has a myriad of advantages as follows: 1- It creats an axiety -free environment for the learners where they can openly discuss their ideas about different topics. 2- Shy students join others pretty well, so this...

This book reports on a study aimed at exploring the advantage of Dynamic Assessment as an instructional instrument over Non-dynamic (traditional) Assessment and Non-assessment approaches in the pragmatic production of EFL learners. The target speech acts of apology, complaint, and compliment were chosen for the study. Results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between the DA group and the other two groups of NDA and NA, which was due to the positive effects of Dynamic Assessment on learning these pragmatic features.