Add to ORKGLanguage testing has, in the past, dealt almost exclusively with the testing of those skills which, separately, are said to make up language. Tests of these individual skills generally make use of eye (sometimes of ear and eye) and hand to test through recog-nition, various structures within the different levels of language, i.e. the learner's current knowledge of the underlying systems of the language being learned. Aspects are usually tested as discrete items and the battery of tests together might be said to be, in a strong way, a test of theoretical competence. Such tests are widely used because they are technically objective, and because, being objective, they are relatively simple to administer and to mark. A kind of 'double...