TESTING AS A METHOD OF EFFECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE TRAINING AT THE COMPETENCY-BASED APPROACH TO EDUCATION
The article deals with important aspects of making tests at the competence-based approach to education, types of language tests, their functions in studies, as well as objective evaluation of quality of training by the testing method. The author analyses modern Russian and foreign research works on the problem concerned. Special emphasis is made on most typical cognitive difficulties that the students are faced during testing with.