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República Bolivariana de VenezuelaUniversidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador
Instituto Pedagógico de CaracasMaestría en Enseñanza del Inglés como Lengua
ExtranjeraEstrategias de Evaluación
Authors: Maite Sangroniz María Aurora Ovalles
Nairuby Mata, Professor: Rosa Virguez de Olivo
Assessing Speaking
Authors: Maite Sangroniz María Aurora Ovalles
Nairuby Mata, Professor: Rosa Virguez de Olivo
June, 2011
Teaching speaking
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What is Speaking?
¨Speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving and processing information¨ (Brown, 1994; Burns & Joyce, 1997).
According to Kramsch (1986) cited in O´Malley and Valdez (1996) ¨Speaking means anticipating the listener´s response and possible misunderstandings, and arriving at the closest possible match between intended, perceived, and anticipated meanings¨.
Assessing Speaking
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Characteristics of Spoken languageSpoken language is different from written language for many reasons.
One important reason is that it usually has to be understood immediately whereas written language can be read many times. For that reason, spoken language has many different features.
Spoken language has the following characteristics (Halliday, 1989, p. 31):
Variation in speed (generally faster than writing) Loudness or quietness
Gestures - body language Intonation
Stress Rhythm
Pitch range Pausing and phrasing
Assessing Speaking
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Assessing Speaking
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PICTURE-CUED STORY TELLING (intermediate level sample)
Source:http://www.google.co.ve/search?hl=es&biw=1259&bih=573&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=sequenced+pictures+for+story+telling&btnG=Buscar&oq=sequenced+pictures+for+story+telling&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=54413l75052l0l31l30l2l0l0l3l905l6206l0.2.11.4.1.1.1
Source: Brown, H., 2004. Language Assessment Principles and Classroom Practices.
PICTURE – CUED STORY TELLING
(OBJECTIVE: SIMPLE PAST)
Assessing Speaking:
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Interactive SpeakingChoosing the best test format
ROLE PLAYStructured role
play (information gap)
Structured interview
Unstructured Interviews
ROLE PLAYUnstructured
role play
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Interviews: (stages)
Warm up: 1. small talk
Level check: the test taker
2. answers Wh-questions
3 produce a narrative without interruptions
4 reads a passage outloud
5 Tells how to make something or do something
6 engages in a brief, controlled, guided role play Probe: The test-taker:
7 responds to interviewer´s questions about something the test taker doesn´t know and is planning to include in an article or paper.
8 talks about his or her own field of study or profession.
9 engages in a longer, more open-ended role play (e.g. simulates a difficult of embarrassing situation) with the interviewer.
10 gives an impromptu presentation on some aspect of test-taker´s field.
Wind down:
11 feeling about the interview, information or results, further questions
Role Plays
Discussions and conversations
Assessing Speaking:
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Extensive Speaking
Translation of an extended
prose
Oral Presentations
Picture-cuedStory Telling
Retelling a story
Source: Brown, 2004
Oral Presentations
Specify the criterionSet appropriate tasksOptimal outputPractical, reliable scoring
Source: Brown, H., 2004. Language Assessment Principles and Classroom Practices.
ORAL PRESENTATION CHECK LIST
ConclusionsSpeaking assessment is very difficult.It is important to determine what criteria to use to
assess whether accuracy or fluency. Such criteria can be based upon created models or adapted ones.
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Bailey, K.M., & Savage, L. (1994). "New ways in teaching speaking." Alexandria, VA: Teachers of
English to Speakers of Other Languages.
Brown, H.D. (1994). "Teaching by principles: an interactive approach to language pedagogy.“
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Regents.
Burns, A., & Joyce, H. (1997). "Focus on speaking." Sydney: National Center for English Language
Teaching and Research.
Carter, R. & McCarthy, M. (1995). Grammar and spoken language. "Applied Linguistics, 16" (2),
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