DESIGNING SPEAKING

ASSESMENT

5 BASIC TYPES OF SPEAKING

IMITATIVE

It is simply the ability to parrot back a word or phrase or a sentence.

INTENSIVE

It is the production of short stretches of oral language. Examples include directed response tasks, reading aloud, sentence and dialogue completion, limited picture-cued tasks.

REPSONSIVE

The tasks include interaction and test comprehension but at the limited level of short conversations, standard greetings, small talk, requests, and comments.

INTERACTIVE

The length and complexity of the interaction are more in interactive tasks than in responsive ones. The task sometimes includes multiple exchanges and/or multiple participants.

EXTENSIVE

The tasks include speeches, oral presentations, and story-telling. Oral interaction from listeners is either highly limited or ruled out altogether.

Steps in Assessing Speaking

1. Identifying the purpose of speaking

2. Planning speaking Assessments

3. Designing speaking test rubric

Designing speaking asesment

1. Immitative 2. Intensive

3. Responsive4. Interactive5. extensive

ASSESSMENT TASKS: IMITATIVE SPEAKING

What tasks to assess imitative speaking?Typical – listen and repeat.

What kinds of prompts would you use? Examples: Test-takers hear:

beat/bit bat/vat I bought a boat yesterday.The glow of the candle is growing.

Test-takers repeat the stimulus.

What tasks to assess imitative speaking?Typical – listen and repeat.

What kinds of prompts would you use? Examples: Test-takers hear:

beat/bit bat/vat I bought a boat yesterday.The glow of the candle is growing.

Test-takers repeat the stimulus.

SCORING FOR IMITATIVE TASKS How would you score these tasks? Example scoring scale:

2 acceptable pronunciation.1 comprehensible, partially correct.0 silence, seriously incorrect.

How would you score these tasks? Example scoring scale:

2 acceptable pronunciation.1 comprehensible, partially correct.0 silence, seriously incorrect.

ASSESSMENT TASKS: INTENSIVE

1.Directed respon task2.Reading aloud3.Sentence completion4.Limited picture cued

Assessment Tasks: INTENSIVE

1.Pronunciation

2.Fluency

Assessment Tasks: INTENSIVE

• Pronunciation: what scale would you design for scoring?

• Example: – 0.0—0.4 frequent errors and unintelligible.– 0.5—1.4 occasionally unintelligible.– 1.5—2.4 some errors but intelligible.– 2.5—3.0 occasional errors but always

intelligible.

Assessment Tasks: INTENSIVE

• Pronunciation: what scale would you design for scoring?

• Example: – 0.0—0.4 frequent errors and unintelligible.– 0.5—1.4 occasionally unintelligible.– 1.5—2.4 some errors but intelligible.– 2.5—3.0 occasional errors but always

intelligible.

Assessment Tasks: INTENSIVE

• Fluency: what scale would you design for scoring?

• Example: 0.0– 0.4 slow, hesitant, and unintelligible.

0.5– 1.4 non-native pauses and flow that interferes with intelligibility.

1.5- 2.4 non-native pauses but the flow is intelligible.

2.5- 3.0 smooth and effortless.

Responsive speaking task

Responsive: include interaction and test comprehension but at the somewhat limited level of very short conversations,standars greetings and small talk,simple requests and comments,and the like.Here some active which can do by the teahers when assessing responsive speaking

Responsive task

Question and AnswerParaprahsingGiving instruction and direction test spoken

Interactive speaking

1. Interview1. Role playing2. Discussion

Extensive speaking task

•Oral Presentation•Picture cued story telling•Retelling a story•translation