How to assess Speaking Manuel Illescas and Eli Jiménez
1. Lower teacher participation
2. Create a List of Objectives
3. Include Different Types of Speaking Tasks
4. Design an Evaluation Rubric
5. Give Feedback
The first thing you’ll have to consider when designing effective speaking tests is that you’ll have to speak less. A lot less.
These objectives are not things like “learning the simple past but more practical, context-based goals like “learning to talk about what you did in the recent past”.
Once you have defined the topics you want to test them on, define the types of speaking tasks they’ll need to complete.
How do you grade your students across these various tasks? Prepare an evaluation rubric. First you have to decide exactly what you’ll evaluate.
Finally, just as essential as the test itself, and more important than the grade/score, is the feedback you’ll give your students on how they performed.
• The purpose of assessingstudents is:
To determine whether or not the
objectives have been reached or
not.
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Common Speaking Tasks in Language Classrooms
Classroom participation
Class presentations/debates
Weekly digital voice journals with audio/video prompts by email