Assess speaking

1. ASSESSMENT SPEAKING

2. TO ASSESS SPEAKING IT
IS NECESARY TO ASK THIS
QUESTION BEFORE
Why am I testing? Purpose of the test
Who am I testing? Takers
What am I testing? Construct testing- Talk about a topic describe a pharagraph,
compare, tell summarize, information gap activities, role play, questions and answers,
discussion.
How am I testing? Task in the test
How am I scoring? Assignment of points
How is my test benefict? Impact on the test on learning

3. SPEAKING TEST
Difficult to assess students´ confidence, skill pronunciation,
• Read aloud sentences:
• Reproduction of language:
• Monologue speech:
• Interaction:

4. PURPOSE OF THE TEST
Speaking
 Measure the pronunciation
 Cognitive knowledge and
Processing
 Generation of idesa
 Knowledge of gramar
 Knowledge of vocabulary
 Knowledge of gramar
 Knowledge of sounds
 Articulation
 Self monitoring .
 ARTICULATION SELF MONITORING
 ALL THESE ACTIVITIES ARE
AUTOMATIC
The mechanics of driving is.
A range of communicative
situations.

5. Advantages
 More interaction
 Brainstorming
 Read
 Task communicative
 High authenticity
 Interactional skills
 measures what students can do
with resources not just what the
can remember
Disadvantages
o No complete the students´
performance
o Student no familiar with the
system
o risk of hacking
o not always available to students
with certain disabilities
o can be very time consuming for
students

6. FACTORS WICH AFFECT TASK
 Instructions clear
 The purpose of the task clear
 Range of the task
 Oreder
 Timing
 Marking criteria

7. ASPECTS TO SPEAKING THAT YOU NEED TO
BE AWARE OF WHEN ASSESSING SPEAKING:
 Vocabulary
 Grammar
 Fluency
 Pronunciation
 Task completion

8. ASSESSMENT SCALES
 INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION: initiating and responding · hesitation · turn-taking
 PRONUNCIATION: intonation · individual sounds
 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: range · accuracy · appropriacy
 DISCOURSE MANAGEMENT: relevance · coherence · extent
 EXPLANATION OF CRITERIA:
 Interactive Communication (Initiating and Responding, Hesitation, Turn-taking) refers to the
candidate’s ability.
 DISCOURSE MANAGEMENT
 (Relevance, Coherence, Extent)

9. TYPES OF SCALE
HOLISTIC
 General impression one overal
mark.
 ingle score may mask an uneven
writing profile and may lead to
misleading placements
 STRENGTHS:
Practicality – faster
LIMITATIONS:
No useful diagnostic information
score
Difficult to use when skills are
unevenly developed.
ANALYTIC
o time-consuming; expensive
o Broken down into separate
features
o Several marks
o STRENGTHS:
Diagnostic information
Useful in rater learners
LIMITATIONS:
Time – consuming