Abstract
Testing Language Skills reveal a very important tool to assess fairly students' foreign language skills. This paper analyzes how to assess students' foreign language skills. In the Japanese educational system, objective tests like multiplechoice items, matching items, true and false items, and short answer items have been the major test procedures. Generally speaking, as a foreign language teacher has forty to fifty students in a class, he/she cannot afford to offer a rather time-consuming writing essay test. However, there has not been a methodology how to assess students' foreign language skills through objective tests. Thus, constructing items fairly in an objective test is essential.
For this research, the author chose eleven Japanese students from Northern Arizona University as examinees. The content included INTRODUCTION, PREPARATION OF TEST, SCORING PROCEDURES, RESULTS, and DISCUSSION.
This paper will be useful for ESL (EFL) teachers and professors to produce objective-test items fairly in assessing students' foreign language skills.
