Oral language assessment aims to evaluate students' ability to communicate effectively for both basic and academic purposes. It involves observing students in various social, academic, and presentation contexts to understand their use of language functions like expressing meaning through communicative and academic language. Assessment tasks should give students opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and understanding in a way that motivates them and recognizes their accomplishments. In the primary grades, a child's oral language ability forms the basis for beginning literacy and various formal and informal assessments provide information about their developing oral skills.

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

2.  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. 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 assessment of English Language learners in
school aims a student´s ability to communicate for both basic
communicative and academic porpuse.

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

7. • Assessment tasks should provide students with an
opportunity to display the knowledge, skills, understanding
and attitudes they have developed and motivate them by
recognizing 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.  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