How to teach speaking for exams
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Katherine Andrade
One-to-one testing Paired testing
Advantages
Authentic opportunities for
interaction
Increases the range of of task
types.
Enables 2 examiners:
interlocutor -assessor
Marking is more objective (2 examiners)
Interview tasks
Presentation tasks
Negotiation tasks
Discussion tasks
• Lower levels: Less than 10’
• Advanced levels: Only 20’
Purpose: Settle the candidates (starting point) Test their ability to provide general personal
information.• Everyday
topics
• Levels
• Paired interviews
Lower-level question:Where are you from?
Higher-level question:Looking back on your education up to now, is there anything you would like to change?
Paired interview: Ask each other about:Future plans/ reasons for learning English
Ability to speak at length (1-3’) on a prescribed topic.
Visual prompt Verbal prompt
Discuss a given situation in order to reach a decision (negotiating skills).
One-to-one testing/ Paired testing
Speculate about a situation.
Make suggestions Discuss alternatives Find differences Put items in order
Final and more complex task (open-ended questions) Direct intervention of the interlocutor Ability to articulate opinions and beliefs
Speaking abilities at their best!
Example
Exam procedureLevel of performance required
Examiner behavior
Conduct of paired testing
Recording of speaking exams
Discourse management
Fluency
Coherence
Interactive communication
Turn-taking
Initiating & responding
Grammar & vocabulary
Grammatical items
Lexical forms
Pronunciation
Production of individual
sounds
Control of prosodic features
Standardize the conduct of exams.
Classroom practice Examiner scripts Putting learners in the
interlocutor’s role.
Negotiating in English in the classroom Awareness raising in the features of paired-task performance
Real context example
Teacher’s model
Students’ example
Students’ practice
Skills in managing interaction
Interview tasks
• Turn-taking• Function cards
• Asking & responding to interview questions
Discussion skills
• Topics
• Express opinions
• Debates
Sustained speaking
tests
• Regular practice
• Listening with full attention
Talk about pictures
• Express oneself
tentatively
• No general knowledge is
measured
Individual sounds
Stress
Intonation