1. ORAL TEST
Lecturer:
Dr.Ir. Vina Serevina
S2 Student:
Fandi Cahya
Physical Education Master Program
Departement Of Physics
Faculty Of Mathematics And Natural Sciences
State University of Jakarta
2014

2. BACKGROUND
• Speaking skills or speaking skill is the ability to express
articulation sounds or words to form ideas, thoughts,
opinions, desires, or feelings of the conversational
partner.
• Aims generally speaking skills so that students are able
to communicate orally and fairly with their language
learning better.
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1. Arikunto, Suharsimi . 2005.Dasar-Dasar Evaluasi Pendidikan. Bumi
Aksara,

3. Oral Test
• The ability of speaking include :
Pronounciation
Grammar
Smoothness
Understanding of Context
The purpose of the test is to measure the ability of
speaking proficiency in original language as a means of
oral communication.
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Heaton, J.B .1987 Writing English Language Tests. London : Longman,

4. Oral Test Form
• To measure the ability to speak, many ways or forms that can be
developed by teachers according to student ability levels, from the
most basic tests and simplest to the most complex forms of testing
and difficult.
• There are several forms of oral test :
Reading Aloud
Storytelling Through Pictures
Telling Back
Discussion
Interview
Speech
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Heaton, J.B .1987 Writing English Language Tests. London : Longman,

5. Implementation Of Oral Test
• Nurkanca explains that the things that need attention in the
implementation of oral tests, among others, are as follows:
 Teachers must remain aware that the purpose of the evaluation is to get
an overview of academic achievement attained by students.
 Teachers do not yell at a student because the student gives an answer
that in the opinion of teachers is the answer "stupid“.
 Do not also there is a tendency to help a student who was in the test
 Prepare a plan to first answer the question as well as the score for each
question asked.
 Organise scoring carefully to each answer given by the student.
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Nurkanca, Wayan dan Sunartana . 1986. Evaluasi Pendidikan. Surabaya : Usaha Nasional

6. What is required for Oral Test
• For Student
The images or photographs as aids students speak before they are
given the opportunity to speak to the situation given.
• For Teachers
Assessment format and scoring criteria as well as a recorder and
tape recordernya whenever possible.
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Nurkanca, Wayan dan Sunartana . 1986. Evaluasi Pendidikan. Surabaya : Usaha Nasional
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7. ORAL TEST PROS
 Able to assess the ability and knowledge level of the students, attitude and
personality because it is done face to face.
 For students who are relatively slow thinking ability so often experience
difficulty in understanding the problem statement, this form of testing can
help because learners can ask questions directly clarity in question.
 Students can be argued.
 Able to evaluate the ability of reasoning.
 Can deepening material.
 Cannot cheating
 Test results can be directly known by learners.
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Nurkanca, Wayan dan Sunartana . 1986. Evaluasi Pendidikan. Surabaya : Usaha Nasional

8. ORAL TEST CONS
Educators subjectivity often contaminate the
test results.
It is possible injustice.
It takes a long time
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Nurkanca, Wayan dan Sunartana . 1986. Evaluasi Pendidikan. Surabaya : Usaha Nasional

9. Problems & Solution
 How the assessment criteria in the oral test?
Assessment is based on the smoothness and accuracy in
answering parse problem
How to allocate time for the oral test?
If it is not possible to ask the students one by one, then it can be
done by asking each group. Where each group consists of 3 or 4
people.
How do I avoid subjectivity in oral test?
Assessment is still being done objectively by observing whether
the student can answer the important points of each question
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Nurkanca, Wayan dan Sunartana . 1986. Evaluasi Pendidikan. Surabaya : Usaha Nasional

10. Conclusion
• Based on the above it can be concluded that the
oral test can:
Develop students understanding
Developing the ability to think and make
decisions
Activate both sides of teachers and students.

11. References
• Arikunto, Suharsimi. 2005 . Dasar-Dasar Evaluasi
Pendidikan. Bumi Aksara.
• Heaton, J.B .1987. Writing English Language Tests.
London : Longman.
• Nurkanca, Wayan dan Sunartana .1986 . Evaluasi
Pendidikan. Surabaya : Usaha Nasional.
• Sirait, Bistok. 1989. Menyusun Tes Hasil Belajar. IKIP
Semarang Press, Semarang.
• Sudijono, Anas. 2008. Pengantar Evaluasi Pendidikan.
Jakarta: PT. Raja Grafindo Persada.
• Zainul, N. 2005. Penilaian Hasil Belajar Cetakan Ke-5.
Jakarta: PAU-PPAI.