Evaluating communicative language testing in Iraqi ministerial examination

الملخص EN

The present research is conducted to investigate the communicative language testing in Iraqi Ministerial Examinations in terms of Bachman and Palmer's framework of task characteristics.

The study is divided into two parts : theoretical background and methodology.

The former deals with communicative competence, authenticity, approaches to testing, and, most importantly, it presents the framework of the study.

It is a historical background.

The latter is the methodology of the study, that is the practical analysis of data according to the framework applied to the research.

The purpose of the study is to check whether students' communicative competence is appropriately tested or not..