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Assessment is crucial part of any second language program; the teacher and the
students need to have up to date information about the students abilities, progress
and overall development in the language. Summative assessment plays a critical
role in this information gathering process. By conducting a variety of forms of
summative assessment (also known as assessment of learning), the teacher will
have a good grasp of where their students are in the learning process. In the
following section we will look at why this type of assessment is important, provide
some possible summative assessment strategies, and give examples of what
summative marking tools look like.
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