ASSESING SPEAKING

Assesing Speaking

Basic Types of Speaking

Micro and Macroskills of speaking

Imitative

Intensive

Responsive

Interactive

Extensive

Designing Assessment task :Imitative Speaking

Phonepass Test

Is the ability to simply parrot back (imitate) a word or phrase or possibly a sentence.

Is the production of short stretches of oral language designed to demonstrate competence

Include interaction and test com-prehension but at the somewhat limited level of very short conversations

Is in the length and complexity of the interaction, which sometimes involves multiple exchanges and participants.

Include speeches, oral presentations,during which the opportunity for oral interaction from listeners is either highly limited or ruled out altogether.

Microskills

Macroskills

Produce differences among English phonemes and allophonic variants.

Produce chunks of language of different lengths.

Produce reduced forms of words and phrases.

Produce fluent speech at different rates of delivery.

Use grammatical word classes (nouns, verbs, etc.)

Express a particular meaning in different grammatical forms.

Use cohesive devices in spoken discourse.

Appropriately accomplish communicative functions

Use appropriate styles, registers, implicature, pragmatic conventions.etc.

Convey links and connections between events and communicate.

Convey facial features, kinesics, body language, and other nonverbal cues.

Develop and use a battery of speaking strategies, such as emphasizing key words, rephrasing.

Three important issues

No speaking task is capable of isolating the single skill of oral production.

Choosing specific criteria can be tricky - spoken language offers a range of productive options for test takers.

It is important to carefully specify scoring procedures for a response so that ultimately you achieve as high a reliability index as possibie.

More attention is given to pronunciation, especially suprasegmentals.

These tasks range from word to sentence level, and focus on a specific phonological criterion.

In a simple repetition task, the stimulus is repeated.

Scoring specifications must be clear to avoid reliability failures.

The longer the length of the language section, the greater the potential for error and therefore the more difficult it is to assign a point system to the text.

The PhonePass test elicits computer-assisted oral production over a telephone.

The test has five sections.

Test-takers. read aloud, repeat sentences, say words, and answer questions.

Read aloud selected sentences from among those printed on the test sheet.

Repeat sentences dictated over the phone.

Answer questions with a single word or a short phrase of two or three words.

Hear three word groups in random order and must link them in a correctly ordered sentence.

Have 30 seconds to talk about their opinion about some topic that is

dictated over the phone.