Types of tests in English language teaching

The actuality of the final qualification paper is learning the usage of types of tests is more vital in language teaching as it verifies the way of assessing students’ progress. If we focus on the world practice, nowadays we use TOEFL and IELTS tests to assess the language; and its reading and listening parts are based on closely to the test system. Based on this, the actuality of our work is to show how tests are necessary in language teaching. The main aim of the work is to expose various types of test formats and ways of testing, to demonstrate for what purpose we will use them and show the evaluation of students or language learners’ knowledge by comparing existing types of tests with each other and to find similarities and divergences of tests, in order to see how the theory is used and could be applied in practice.