Évaluer… l'évaluation sommative

Abstract

This article questions the relevance of summative evaluation tests in French as a foreign language based on which candidates are admitted to the Faculty of Modern Literature. As it is placed at the crossing between secondary studies and future University studies, this test should have taken into account two types of repositories: the profile of the speaker of French as a foreign language at level B2, as well as the profile of the future student of literature. Communication skills and metalinguistic competence should have been found in this evaluation. Or, one notes that only grammar skills are evaluated.