Исследование процесса тестирования как особого вида коммуникации: на материале систем тестирования в России и в Корее

Testing as special type of communication: Comparison of systems of testing in Russia and in Korea

This article is devoted to the analysis of testing systems in Russia and Korea. In this article, a test is treated as a special type of communication. The subject of this research is a test for a cross-cultural communication. When students with a specific cultural background pass tests, they begin a crosscultural communication. Of course, systems of testing have universal, national, specific features. For this reason testing as a special type of communication can be considered from both pedagogical and cultural linguistic points of view. Due to interaction of culture and language, variety of ways and forms of giving in the test, national texts can be a difficult barrier to the student who wants to pass the test. The student has to be psychologically ready for this process. Testers and teachers have to know features of test systems. Research problems are to characterize testing as a type of educational communication, to define testing as communicative interaction, to describe systems of testing in Russia and Korea in order to detect national peculiarities of these systems. This article contains methodical features. It has to help teachers who make students be prepared to pass a test. Decoding of the foreign language signs in the testing process depends on psychological and cultural characteristics of the recipient. Interpretation of a written text depends on the level of its national culturological loads. Understanding the content of the texts which are given for state testing in a foreign language allows those who are tested to minimize psychological barriers in the perception of the foreign language text and to demonstrate an objective level of language competences. A teacher can make an addition to linguo-methodical component of foreign language classes.