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TEST FOR YOUNG LEARNERS
M16
17-
Seco
nd L
angu
age
Lear
ning
and
Teac
hing
Auth
ors:
Pat
ricia
Río
s, P
ilar S
ainz
and
Son
ia Ir
iond
o
Why do we have to test young learners (aged 5-12)?
Ensure that the teaching programme is effective
Need for a common criterion
Make comparisons between assessment and testing
Testing
Assesment
Teaching programme
Some recomendations to test properly…
Inmediate feedback
Increasing value itselfAlways positive!
Self assessment
Conventions easy to understand
Brief and varied: two or more test
Reliability & Validity
Attractive for children..they love stories and play!
Handle in their own languagePromotes interaction
Be familiar with teacher and environment
RECOMMENDED TECHNIQUES TO TEST DIFFERENT SKILLS
LISTENING
READING WRITING SPEAKING
To place objects in a picture.Example on the net:
http://wikisaber.es/Contenidos/LObjects/Macmillan_bb1_actJ/index.html
Multiple choice pictures. http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7258
To colour and to draw on existing line drawing. http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/paint-it/pets
Information transfer (also involves simple reading and writing).
TECNIQUES TO TEST LISTENING
Multiple choice.
Gap filling with pictures
TECHINIQUES TO TEST READING
BETTER WITH PICTURES!!
Anagram with picture: to test vocabulary and spelling.
Cartoon story: look at the cartoons and tell a simple story.
Gap filling with pictures (reading and writing).
TECNIQUES TO TEST WRITING
Asking straightforward questions about the child and their family.
Giving the child a card with a scene on it and asking them about it.
Giving the child two very similar pictures but which differ in obvious ways
and the child is asked to say what the differences are.
The child must tell a story through some pictures.
Sets of pictures are presented
and the child is asked to identify the odd one.
TECNIQUES FOR ORAL ABILITY: SPEAKING & INTERACTION
Warming up
In pairs, a child can describe a classmate and the other one has to guess who is being described.
There are four different postcards and everyone is given three of them. They have to discover
which cards they have in common by asking and answering questions.
There are two pictures which are different but which contain a number of objects that are
identical. The child who has picture A has to describe an object in their picture and the child who
has picture B has to say whether it is to be found in their picture.
Children have some cards with incomplete information. They have to ask questions to end up
with all the information.
TECNIQUES FOR ORAL ABILITY II: INTERACTION
ANY QUESTION??
THAN
K YO
U!!
!
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