LIMITED RESPONSES...

Techniques for evaluating Pre-writing
There are only a few of the technique that can be employed at this stage. We can see it through the following example below that illustrates these five procedures.

1. Sentence combining, a common pre-writing task takes many forms. Combining two sentences using sentence connectors. We can also use subordinators. Combining sentences by having students make internal changes in the grammar and also requires considerable proficiency on the part of student.
2. Sentence expansion involves by simply adding words such as adjectives and adverbs or it can even require adding phrases and clauses.
3. Sentence reduction; often provides a cue word to show how to begin a new phrase.
4. Copying; make students more aware of extended discourses and also mechanics (especially punctuation and spelling). One type of copying task uses an early audio-lingual technique and also the substitution table.
5. Oral cloze; combines dictation with selected cloze using high frequency deletion. Difficult content words or grammar not covered yet can be left intact.

Techniques for evaluating Beginning writing:

There are a few procedures that can be used with beginning writes. Among the limited response techniques is the task of simply changing questions into statement, thus writing a paragraph.

Essay dictation passages can be given a material such as dialogs that students are already familiar with.

Besides that, pictures can also be used to cue the writing of short easy paragraphs for illustrations of these procedures.



Advantages of limited response items:

1. These are generally quite easy to construct.
2. These are suitable for students with limited ability in English.
3. Except for the opened-ended variety, these are rather objective for a writing-related task.
   

Limitations of limited response- items:

1. These do not measure actual writing skill.
2. These can be rather slow to correct-especially the open-ended variety.