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Curious in teaching English abroad? Learn more about TESOL certification. Testing, Teaching, Testing Traditional testing of foreign language learners usually consists of specific questions that tap into limited cognitive processes and skills. Although foreign language students will continue to sit traditional tests and formal examinations, such tests do not assess adequately or play a part in enhancing the higher-order thinking skills of any students including foreign language learners. Traditional Testing Easier for Foreign Language Teachers The reasons why these types of tests continue to exist in the foreign language classroom fall into two main categories - teaching and pragmatics. Firstly, one of the most important factors affecting teaching is time. Time has become an even bigger issue as the classrooms have grown larger and foreign language teachers have to find efficient methods of assessing learning at a particular point in time. For the foreign language teacher, traditional tests are easy to write and mark since they have set standards for rating or judgment. Read more at Suite101: Foreign Language Teaching, Learning and 'Traditional Testing' http://www.suite101.com/content/foreign-language-teaching-learning-and-traditional-testing-met-a330090#ixzz1AjV1lP3m