Help your students to improve in their modern language/ foreign language communication, speaking, through formative assessment. Change ACTFL proficiencies into function speaking goals to help your students speaking. Increase speaking in the classroom. Monitor the students

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Improving Students' Modern Language
Speaking through Formative Assessment
Part 2 - Monitoring
By Dr. Harry Grover Tuttle
Edmundyeo http://www.flickr.com/photos/82727030@N00/4506005978/

2. Previously Part I
The Importance of Students' Speaking in Modern
Language Class
YouTube Video http://bit.ly/mlspeak
Or
Slideshare http://slidesha.re/flspeakss

3. Mr plough http://www.flickr.com/photos/10380973@N02/2302743171/

4. Freearriello http://www.flickr.com/photos/34026361@N00/2053665832/

5. We want our students to do more than crawl in the
target language.
We want them to run.
ACTFL has identified speaking levels from basic
crawling at the Novice level, to walking at the
Intermediate level, and running at higher levels.
Do your students crawl, walk or run in the target
language?

6. ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines – Speaking
Superior-level speakers :
• Converse fully in formal and informal settings on topics related
to personal, public, and professional/scholarly interests
Advanced-level speakers :
• Converse in most informal and some formal settings on topics of
personal and public interest
Intermediate-level speakers :
• participate in simple, direct conversations on generally
predictable topics related to daily activities and personal
environment
Novice-level speakers:
• respond to simple questions in memorized phrases and some
personalized recombinations for a very limited number of
immediate needs

7. Formative Assessment
The process of students immediately moving forward from their present
diagnosed learning to the expected learning goal. (Tuttle, 2010)
Jill Clardy http://www.flickr.com/photos/22829128@N08/5262715246/

8. Focus on improvement
Not a grade

9. David Shindeld http://www.flickr.com/photos/17528760@N00/354846820/

10. David Domingo http://www.flickr.com/photos/_sml/151835570/

11. Our students become stuck in their speaking and
cannot get out without our giving them new
speaking strategies.
We offer our students a safety rope, formative
assessment, to successfully climb up in their
speaking.

12. Tuttle, 2009

13. Tuttle, 2009
Instruction

14. Topic: Family
Language function and amount/level
I can
___Name ten family members.
___Give the names and ages of ten family members and state
their relationship to me.
___Describe three of them with at least four descriptive words
each.
___Describe three family members' likes/dislikes and favorite
activities.

15. Textbooks identify vocabulary topics but not
language functions for the topics.
“I can” statements tell what function the student
can do and how well.
Have you identified the language functions you
want your students to do for each topic?

17. Monitor
Randy Cox http://www.flickr.com/photos/randycox/367509596/

18. Assess speaking?
Carbon nyc http://www.flickr.com/photos/15923063@N00/5757504378/

19. Until students speak in the target language, we are
in total darkness as to their ability.
We need to monitor the students' speaking.
How many times each class do your students'
speak in the target language?

20. Precise Language Goal:
Which Language Function?
Socialize (greetings)
Give information
Elaborate
Give opinions
Persuade
Compare
Maintain a conversation

21. Studiostoer http://www.flickr.com/photos/48304881@N05/5240756741 /

22. We identify a topic and then a specific language
function.
We give our students many classroom
opportunities to speak in the target language.

23. Bibliojojo http://www.flickr.com/photos/68509201@N08/6225702347/

25. We monitor their speaking.
We do not try to remember their speaking scores
based on rubric, checklist or “I can” statements.
We do record their speaking in a spreadsheet to
compare to future speaking for the same language
function.
How often do you record data about your students'
speaking?

26. Tuttle, 2009

27. Based on ACTFL Proficiencies
Includes a technique to assess
the speaking of all students in
your classroom in 3 minutes.
Identifies 15+ language functions
For each language function,
provides 10+ strategies for
students to use to improve.
Help your students go from
crawlers to runners in their target
language speaking.
http://www.eyeoneducation.com/prodinfo.asp?number=7096-9
Eye on Education Books: http://is.gd/tbook

28. Harry Grover Tuttle, Ed. D.
Instructor /Author/ Consultant
(Speaking, Culture, Technology, Smartphones)
htuttlebs@gmail.com
Book: Improving Foreign Language Speaking through Formative
Assessment http://is.gd/tbook
His Spanish speaking class room activities at Teacherspayteachers:
http://bit.ly/tpthtuttle
Blog http://www.eduwithtechn.wordpress.com
This as a Youtube Video http://bit.ly/MLFAP2