This document contains instructions for two assignments: a description assignment and a reflection assignment related to designing a speaking test. For the description assignment, students are asked to work in pairs to select pictures to construct a speaking test, write specifications for the test, decide on a scoring procedure, pilot the test with a student, and attach the results. For the reflection assignment, the document explains that students created a speaking task with three parts around a chosen topic and images. They applied the task by having freshmen students participate and found that carefully analyzing the rubrics in advance was most important.

1. Description assignment unit 3
1. In pairs design a speaking test in pairs.
2. Refer to Task 8 in Session 9 Testing speaking:
- Select pictures with your partner to construct a speaking test.
- Write the specifications for your test ( See sample list of specifications from
Luoma 2004)
- Refer to: Task Orientation, Interactional relationship, Goal orientation,
Interlocutor status and familiarity and topics (See Fulcher examples
delivered in class)
- Decide on a scoring procedure
- Pilot your test and rubric(s) with a university or school student, modify if
necessary. You must attach this in your written assignment.
Reflection assignment unit 3
In this assignment we create a speaking task in which we choose a topic
and then some images related to the topic. We created a task divided into
three parts. It was not so difficult to create the tasks and the appropriate
rubrics for each of the different tasks; nevertheless, the most interesting
part was to apply the speaking task. To apply the task we choose freshmen
students from English pedagogy. All the different rubrics were previously
read and analyzed by us (the teachers in this case) because a rubric must
be carefully study in advance.