Advantages And Disadvantages Of Studying Exam

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English as a foreign language is so extensive language and it includes some rules and skills that a student have to know to understand specific formula of English. So, for most of EFL learners, it can be thought that English exams are very hard to pass and take a high notes. Since learners cope with this important problem, teachers of English should take some responsibility on themselves in terms of teaching exam tecniques. Firstly, they can start to teach of the four skills such as speaking, listening, reading, and writing. They should have consciousness about how to be successful exams teacher and know how to balance testing and teaching in an English exams. Then teachers should plan a course cohererently and determine the kinds of …show more content…

They evaluate students’ learning according to their success level. But preparing exam is so critical matter so exams topic need to include lecture notes, methods that teacher taught properly to their levels. Namely, teachers have a special responsibility than only teaching a language while preparing EFL learners for an examination because the results of exam creates a important effect on students’ careers. Monica Perez (2010) also supports that the students’ expectations for an exam go beyond learning a language. Students take an exam so that they can have some plans to enter a university or move to abroad. In other words, students have a life decision in their mind. Thus, teachers need to focus on their aims in order to be good exams …show more content…

Also, Larry Vandergrift and Christine C. M. Goh expain that “[l]istening activities in many language classrooms tend to focus on the outcome of listening”(2012, p. 4). Teachers need to take care of choosing the audious that are suitable for students’ level because problems can come out for the listener. Students need to careful with question order and if they miss an answer, they quickly concentrate on the next question. Especially, they should ignore words they do not know. They can underline key words in the difficult question because it helps them hear the answer. Learners need to get accustomed to hear all accents and by this way they can quickly recognize different sounds in the accents. Teachers have to let their students know completely what the listening exam consists of and how often they will listen the audio or what the variety of tasks

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