Speaking

Five types of Speaking

• Imitative: Parrot speaking focus on pronouciation
• Intensive:Reading aloud sentence completion
• Responsive: Short coversation simple request and responses
• Interactive: Length and complexity of interaction
• Extensive: Speeches, Interactions from listeners

When Designing assessments these skills act as a check list of objectives.

• Micro: Smaller chunks of language . Phonemes, Morphemes, Words, Collocations, and Phrasal Units
• Macro: Fluency, Discourse, Function, Style, Cohesion, and Nonverbal communication
• When Designing assessments these skills act as a check list of objectives.
• Macro might seems more difficult than micro but they both contain ingredients of difficulty depending on the stage and context of the tests taker

3 Things When Designing Speaking Tasks

No speaking tasks is capable of isolating a single skill of oral production

When electing criterion for task, prompt should achieve aim as close as possible

Based on the prior two assessments make sure your rubrics are specific are reliable

Designing Assessment Tasks: Imitative Speaking

• Phonological repetitive tasks ok as long as they are meaningful.
• Example: Test-taker repeats stimulus. " I bought a boat"
• Versant: https://youtu.be/SVRZ7SGrY3A

Designing Assessment Task: Intensive Speaking

• Test-takers are prompted to produce short stretchers of speech
• Directed response: Tell me he went home
• Read Aloud task: Select as sample that incorporates test-takers output level and above
• Sentence Dialogue Completion
• Picture -Cued Tasks

Designing Assessment Task: Responsive

• Brief interactions, with reasoning. "Why"
• Question and Answer
• Giving Instructions
• Paraphrasing
• Test of Spoken English https://youtu.be/-OAHhzY50yY

Designing Assessment Task: Responsive

• Brief interactions, with reasoning. "Why"
• Question and Answer
• Giving Instructions
• Paraphrasing
• Test of Spoken English https://youtu.be/-OAHhzY50yY

Designing Assessment Tasks: Interactive

• Long stretches of interactive speech. Differs from Extensive by the degree of interaction
• Interview: Warm-up, Level Check, Probe, and Wind-down
• Role play
• Discussion and Conversations
• Games
• Oral Proficiency Interview https://youtu.be/EKA-QB9YhZ0

Designing Assessment Tasks: Extensive

• Complex speaking tasks that are relatively lengthy in time and difficulty. Such as oral presentation and monolouges.
• Such as oral presentation and monologues.
• Picture-cued pg. 220
• Retelling a story
• Translation- native langauge to English

Assessing Speaking

• Speaking is challenegign to assess
• As is takes time to develop speech it also take time and practice to assess it.
• Speaking observations can be muddled by accuracy and effectivenes of the test-takers listening sills
• Speaking is the product of creative construction, the speakers chooses lexicon, discourse and structure of his or her speech.