Assessing Speaking

Assessing Speaking

1. Types of Speaking

   • Imitative
     • The ability to imitate a word, phrase or sentence
       • Activities
         • Phone pass test
   • Intensive
     • Production of short stretches of oral language designed to demostrate competence.
       • Axctivities
         • Directed response tasks, read-aloud tasks, sentence or dialogue comprehension, picture cued tasks, translation.
   • Responsive
     • Respons to a spoken stimulus. It allows very limited interaction.
       • Activities
         • Question and answer, giving instructions and directions, paraphrasing, test of spoken English
   • Interactive
     • Allows longer and more complex interaction. It can be transactional(to exchange information) or interpersonal (to mantain social relationships)
       • Activities
         • Interview, Role play, conversations, games, oral proficiency interview
   • Extensive
     • Language style is is frequently more deliberative(planning is involved). It can be story-telling, oral presentations, etc.)
       • Activities
         • Oral presentations, picture-cued story-telling, retelling a story, translations.

2. Skills

   • Micro skills
     • Their purpose is to produce smaller chunks of language, such as phonemes,morphemes, words, collocations and phrasal units.
   • Macro Skills
     • They imply the speaker's focus on the larger elements such as fluency, disourse, function, style, cohesion.

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