Tests in Foreign Language Teaching

The paper is aimed at using tests in teaching of German as the second foreign language at university. On the base of her experience its author writes about two kinds of tests, about the informative and classification ones. She mentions their purposes and describes the more important among them. She complements their descriptions with some concrete specimens of their contents. She uses the informative tests to be able to specify or modify her teaching strategies in her seminar lessons. The classification tests represent a part of teaching process, their results are a subject matter of the discussions with students. The author shows her attitude to students‘mistakes in test and describes some ways of test corrections.