@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/ttwia.54.13sta, author = "Staatsen, Francis and Noijons, José", title = "Vormgeving Van Nieuwe Doelen Voor Gespreksvaardigheid in de Tweede Fase", journal= "Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen", year = "1996", volume = "54", number = "1", pages = "137-144", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/ttwia.54.13sta", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ttwia.54.13sta", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "0169-7420", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Recently new objectives have been defined for foreign languages in Dutch upper secondary education. These objectives have served as a starting point for curriculum development at SLO (Dutch National Institute for Curriculum Develop-ment). Within the framework of a task-based syllabus as defined by Breen (1987) a communicative activities programme, mainly focussing on speaking, has been designed by SLO and tried out at several schools. Four criteria for grading and sequencing activities were used: level of control in activities, familiarity with theme, linguistic complexity, and complexity of classroom management.The development of tests on the basis of these new objectives will be a challenging task. Care must be taken that such tests are valid, i.e. that they contain a fair representation of the objectives. CITO (Dutch National Institute for Educational Measurement) has called for a refinement of the criteria on which the assessment must be based.", }