2025-05-30
6 分钟Today I want to talk about language tests.
How important are they?
Do I take language tests?
What impact do they have on our learning?
It might be a little controversial,
but to me the fundamental fact of language learning is that it's a fuzzy process.
As language learners, we have to be willing to accept uncertainty.
For a long, long time the language is unclear to us.
There are always moments when we forget words that we know.
We know, we have in our memory somewhere, but can't produce, we can't recall them.
And the whole process itself.
I believe in input-based learning.
I believe in the power of reading and listening.
And yet, whatever I'm doing in the language... I have no idea what is sticking.
Even if we study a table of, you know, declensions, grammatical rules, or lists of words,
whatever we're doing with the language, we have no idea to what extent are we learning.
It's a fuzzy process.
It's not only fuzzy, but it's an error-driven process.
In other words, we need to make mistakes in order for the brain to get used to the language.
And so, to some extent, if we focus on tests and test results,