Oral language assessment evaluates students' communication abilities. It examines how students use language both for basic interactions and academic purposes in various contexts like small group work, presentations, and classroom activities. Effective oral language assessment considers students' use of language functions to express meaning using communicative and academic language. It also plans assessments from the start of a unit to motivate students and recognize their accomplishments. Both informal observations and formal assessments throughout the year provide information on students' developing oral language skills, which form the basis for early literacy instruction.

1. ORAL LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
YON FREDY ESPINOZA.
MARIA CILENA CUELLAR
YULIETH QUINTANA MARTINEZ

2. What is oral language?
 At the most basic level, oral language means
communicating with other people.
Oral language development across the curriculum does not
mean teaching children to speak as much as we mean improving
their ability to talk or communicate more effectively.
 To speak in more effective ways requires
particular attention and constant practice.

3. ORAL LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
There are many different oral language assessment
tools being used by schools.
 Informal tools include observations in a variety of
contexts:
in social and academic contexts
• during classroom activities in pairs, small groups
or whole class
• during presentations (news, debates, speeches
etc).

4. ORAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL
• Oral language assessment of English Language learners in
school aims a student´s ability to communicate for both basic
communicative and academic porpuse.

5. LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
• Whether of classroom settings, English language learners use
language functions to express meaning.
 Language functions.
 Communicative language functions.
 Academic language functions.

6. CRITERIA FOR ORAL LANGUAGE
COMPETENCE:

7. PLANING FOR ASSESSMENT
• Assessment tasks should provide students with an
opportunity to display the knowledge, skills, understanding
and attitudes they have developed and motivate them by
recognising what they have accomplished. Determining how a
unit of work will be assessed needs to be considered at the
start of unit planning so that it ensures the characteristics of
effective assessment are addressed.

8. ASSESSMENT
 In the primary grades, a child’s oral language ability is
the basis for beginning literacy instruction.
 Initial formal assessments, ongoing formative
assessments during the year, as well as summative
assessments will provide information regarding a
child’s oral language skills