David P. Harris (TESTING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE)

1. COMPLETION (MULTIPLE CHOICE)

  Present a context in which one or more words are missing, followed by several alternatives completion.

  3 basic types:

a)Ron (lives) (is living) (has lived) in New York since 2012.

b)Ron ________ in New York since 2012.

A.Lives

B.Is living

C.Has lived

c)“Is Ronald Ramsay still in California?”. “No, _________ in New York since 2012

A.He lives

B.He’d lived

C.He’s living

D.He’s lived

2. SENTENCE ALTERNATIVES (MULTIPLE CHOICE)

  The item stem altogether and simply presents several sentences from which the examinee chooses the acceptable version

  example:

A.Ron is living in New York since 2012

B.Ron lives in New York since 2012

C.Ron has lived in New York since 2012

3. SENTENCE INTERPRETATION (MULTIPLE CHOICE)

  Presents a stimulus and then asks for an interpretation

  example:

  “An old friend of Tom’s family brought him news of his uncle last night.”

  Him refers to

A.An old friend

B.Tom

C.The uncle

4. SCRAMBLED SENTENCE (MULTIPLE CHOICE)

  Use the device of the scrambled sentence in which the examinee rearrange a jumbled series of elements so as to form an acceptable sentence

  example:

lived/she/here/since/2012/has

Key:

She has lived here since 2012