Course Description:  In this course we evaluate and investigate foreign language teaching effectiveness with attention to current insruments and models for assessment of communicative competence ability and proficiency in all three modes, interpersonal, interpretive and presentational.Course readings will include a review of communicative language teaching, measurement theory and a review of communicative language teaching, measurement theory and assessment methods. In addition, students will prepare and administer assessments for all three modes in a communicative learning environment.