Thirdly, and as a follow-through from the above two mentioned Syllabus changes, the function and form of assessment has to be reviewed.Listening and viewing skills in particular, cannot be tested using the traditional summative assessment of learning, which was confined to audio only testing for listening comprehension at the literal level of understanding.
Now that learners are expected to be able to, “listen, read and view critically and with accuracy, understanding and appreciation of a wide range of literary and informational/ functional texts from print and non-print sources” (English
Language Syllabus 2010, p.10), the design of assessment needs to be extended to engage students in different learner behaviour and increasing levels of critical literacy of multimodal texts.