A new topic to discuss

Hi everybody!
I think that this is a false debate simply because there is no perfect answer.For me, before trying to find the best way to motivate the learner, let's try first to find how to motivate the teacher...

Salam.
Exams are the real mirror that reflect what the student has grasped from what is called "competency" through his yearly cursus.

Hi all,
"Despite its psychological impact on the learner, "testing" is a "necessary evil" to check and evaluate what s/he has come up to.On the other hand,testing should not be set only for the sake of testing,but rather there ought to be what authorities on language teaching/learning referred to as the" washback" or else the "backwash" effect of tests.Accordingly, the result of testing become a starting point for learning and remedial activities, aiming at the stimulation of the learners' progress.
Raising the point of testing would deliberately lead us to touch on the major characteristics of a "good test" which include :
1.practicality
2.reliability
3.validity

Teachers,as practitioners,must be aware of the above-mentioned requirements for testing.
In the same vein,testing in ELT context should be communicative.All too often,teachers and syllabus designers do ignore the communicative competence of their learners at a time when orality accounts too much. Thanks!