A survey of test papers used at secondary schools in Thai nguyen.

The purpose of this article is to overview teaching strategies based on the communicative approaches to second language teaching with the focus on testing methods that are related to communicative language teaching in order to discuss advantages and disadvantages of these methods. The study also examined in details the contents of test papers which were randomly collected from secondary school teachers in Thai Nguyen province to support data for the analysis. Although communicative testing is considered to be focused not only on what the learner knows about the second language and about how to use it but also on the learner’s ability to actually demonstrate this knowledge in real-life situations, the fact of language testing shows what is not like theory. As the result, the findings of the analysis will be used to make practical suggestions for the testing procedure to ensure successful learning objectives.