Assessment in Competency-Based English Language Teaching: Bridging the Gap

 

 

Danny Wira Dharma

 

 

 The implementation of the competency-based curriculum (CBC) in the realm of English language teaching in Indonesia has been accompanied by considerable uncertainty in several aspects.  In particular, teachers are perplexed as to how they should assess students’ competencies : (1) what criteria should teachers apply when assessing students’ language competencies, (2) what or whose English proficiency should they use as a benchmark, given the fact that while it is an international language English is also merely a foreign language in Indonesia, and (3) what steps should teachers take to maintain validity and reliability when constructing assessment tasks in this student-oriented instruction. This paper examines ways of addressing these concerns, especially in the context of high schools. The study concludes with a success story concerning the implementation of CBC in one English language immersion programme in Indonesia.

 

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Dharma, D. W. (2006, February). Assessment in competency-based English language teaching: Bridging the gap. Paper presented at the 6^th International Conference, ITB Bandung, Indonesia.

 

 

 

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