This webinar aims at answering fundamental questions of language test design and development and providing practical guidance for Vietnamese K-12 English teachers. It starts with a technical definition of a language test, the purposes or decisions that test results can be used for, and different test types with specific examples in educational practices. It then introduces how to identify test constructs in relation to the language competency framework, a course curriculum and its expected learning outcomes in order to assure the systematicity and substantive grounding of the assessments. This is followed by a detailed discussion of the concepts of difficulty and complexity levels of test items, test specification, and test task types. The webinar uses specific examples and input from Vietnamese K-12 English teachers of the new textbook for its practice activities. It also recommends some resources for teachers for their test development.

This webinar session starts with a review of blended learning approach and different blended models, then proceeds to an introduction of technologies that can be used by the Vietnamese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) K-12 teachers for blended learning design and delivery with the new textbook series, together with sharings from the Vietnamese K-12 teachers in practice. The webinar session hopes to help the target teachers effectively select technological applications and prepare blended scenarios that best suit their teaching contexts.