TESTING ORAL ABILITY

TESTING ORAL ABILITY

1. COMPREHENSION AS WELL AS PRODUCTION

2. SETTING THE TASKS

   • Appropiate tasks
     • operations
       • functions
         • Expressing
         • Narrating
         • Directing
         • Reporting
   • Test types
     • Dialogue, multi- party interaction and telephone conversations

3. CRITICAL LEVELS OF PERFORMANCE

   • Accuracy
     • Grammar structure
   • appropriacy
     • Emphasize
   • Range
     • expresses himself openly
   • Flexibility.
     • It has to be adaptive
   • size
     • is related to time

4. DESCRIPITION OF INTERMEDIATE -MID SPEAKERS' ABILITY ARE:

   • Initiate , sustain and close a basic communicative task
   • Interview
     • oral interaction
   • Interaction with peers
     • asked to discuss a topic
   • Response to tape recording
     • A large number of students can be evaluated at the same time

5. ADVICE ON PLANNING AND CONDUCTING ORAL TESTS

   • Do oral tests constantly , about 15 minutes
   • Of a variety of specific content
   • Plan and select the test carefully
   • Do interviews in quiet rooms
   • Gather enough relevant information

6. ELICITATION TECNIQUES

   • Question and requests for information : Opinions questions
   • PICTURE : DESCRIPTION
   • ROLE PLAY: Ttake on a role in a situation
   • INTERPRETING: Production and comprehension test
   • DISENSSION: information sources
   • Tape recorder stimuli: described situations, remarks in isolation to y simulate conversation
   • Imitation: LIisten and repeat phrases

7. OBTAING VALID AND RELIABLE SCORDING

   • Describing the critical levels. Recordings of different levels
     • PROFICIENCY DESCRIPTIONS
       • ACCENT
       • GRAMMAR
       • VOCABULARY
       • FLUENCY
       • COMPREHENSION