Precision Language Teaching as the Realization of Dynamic Alternative Assessment in Language Classrooms

Precision teaching involves constant monitoring of each individual learner's advancement and thus represents a responsive and accountable teaching. Dynamic and alternative assessments challenge the mainstream assessment and propose the integration of teaching and assessment. The present study is an attempt to show how the tenets of alternative and dynamic assessments are compatible with and are realized in a precision teaching approach to classroom practices. Through precision teaching data gathered from learners are employed to enhance their learning through providing immediate feedback, and this is how teaching, learning and assessment come together. This paper is an attempt to demonstrate to what extent an integrated Precision Language Teaching (PLT) satisfies recent contentions made by those who propose dynamic and alternative language assessments as more effective alternatives to traditional discrete language assessment through taking formulaic expressions as the main building blocks of language.

Keywords: precision teaching, alternative assessment, dynamic assessment, Precision Language Teaching (PLT), formulaic expressions.