In Malaysia, English is taught as a second language (L2) in all secondary schools. English language has four skills that should be mastered by the Malaysian secondary students. The skills are speaking, listening, reading and writing .(Cheah,2009). One of the most important skill in Malaysian secondary schools is writing. This is because writing test is always carried out to measure students language proficiency and writing is a compulsory component in all Malaysian secondary school public exams PT3 and SPM (Leong,2017).
Narrowing down to PT3 examination the writing paper is divided into two sections :
SECTIONS | QUESTIONS | Common tested writing formats | NUM OF WORD | MARKS (40%) |
SECTION A (25 minutes) | SHORT COMMUNICATIVE MESSAGE | Message writing Informal letter writing Writing an Email | 80 | 20% |
SECTION B (35 minutes) | NOTE EXPANSION | Recount Writing | 120 | 20% |
Additionally, there are many kinds of writing and one of them is Recount writing. Recount is a genre that students “tell someone about something: give an account of an event or experience”(Husna,2019.11). In teaching and learning writing especially on the lower secondary students 2019 English curriculum, the second part in the PT3 English language writing paper is a Notes Expansion question with topics on recounts .Students are demand to know how to describe a situation within 120 words by expanding the given words and make well organized content to form a good recount essay. (MoE,2019).
While marking the PT3 writing paper , four important components are tested. They are Content, Communicative Achievement, Organization and Language. Each of the components are given 5 marks (UCLES,2014) In sum, in learning writing, secondary students are required to score in all these four components in their writing.
After knowing in depth about how students will be tested under the CEFR, I started making my Diagnostic test .As I was searching online for some resources, I fond this website that enables me to download some good Diagnostic test papers that I can do with my students. The sample Diagnostic test in these websites are done based on CEFR levels as each level has different samples of Diagnostic Test.
I would love to share with teachers.
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Reference for picture: CEFR Cambridge.com
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