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- 1. Eaquals International Conference, Lisbon, 21 – 23 April 2016 What does ‘can do’ mean to you? Linking practicality and validity in language assessment. Anthea Wilson, Head of Test Production Ben Beaumont, TESOL Qualifications Manager Trinity College, London www.eaquals.org
- 2. What do language exams test? language skills? transferable skills? study strategies?
- 3. Cline 1: A. What is desirable? B. What is practical? 3 Speaking task based on personal experience Examination task to elicit target language structures
- 4. Cline 2: A. What is desirable? B. What is practical? 4 Test taker competence Communicative competence
- 5. What do students need to succeed? Communicative Competence Communicative Competence Model Bachman & Palmer (2010) Discourse competence Strategic competence Linguistic competence Socio-linguistic competence
- 6. What do students need to succeed? • 1. Critical thinking and problem solving • 2. Collaboration and leading by influence • 3. Agility and adaptability • 4. Initiative and entrepreneurship • 5. Effective oral and written communication • 6. Accessing and analysing information • 7. Curiosity and imagination Tony Wagner, Expert In Residence, Innovation Lab of Harvard (2015) Transferable Skills
- 7. Interaction in performance assessment of speaking skills (from McNamara, 1997, p 453) performance rating candidate taskinterlocutor rater scale / criteria
- 8. Cline 3: 8 Test taker competence Communicative competence Speaking task based on personal experience Examination task to elicit target language structures
- 9. Trinity College London’s exam suite Language qualifications • Graded Exams in Spoken English (GESE) • Integrated Skills in English Exams (ISE) Teacher education qualifications • CertTESOL • DipTESOL
- 10. References: Bachman, L. F., & Palmer, A. (2010). Language assessment in practice: Developing language assessments and justifying their use in the real world. Oxford: Oxford University Press. McNamara, T. (1997). ‘Interaction’ in second language performance assessment: whose performance? Applied linguistics, 18, pp. 444 – 466. Wagner, T., & Compton, R. A. (2015). Creating innovators: The making of young people who will change the world. Simon and Schuster.