ASSESSING SPEAKING (PART I)

In this type of speaking, the student has parrot back a word or phrase or possibly a sentence

• Intensive speaking

• Responsive speaking

• Imitative speaking

This type of basic speaking could be an oral presentation about a specific topic.

• Extensive seaking

• Imitatitve speaking

• Interactive speaking

In this type of basic speaking assessment a pair of students talk about their everyday activities.

• Extensive speaking

• Imitative speaking

• Interactive speaking

These assessment tasks include interaction and test comprehension but at the somewhat limited level of very short conversations

• Imitative

• Responsive

• Interactive

This type of basic speaking assessement includes production of short stretches of oral language designed to demonstrate competence in a narrow band of grammatical, phrasal, lexical, or phonological relationships

• Intensive speaking

• Extensive speaking

• Responsive speaking

In this type of task, the test administrator elicits a particular grammatical form or a transformation of a sentence

• Repetition task

• Imitative task

• Direct response task

This technique is easily administered by selecting a passage that incorporates the test specs and by recording the test-taker’s output

• Directed response task

• Imitative task

• Read aloud task

This task requires test-takers to read dialogue in which one speaker’s lines have been omitted.

• Directed response tasks

• Sentence/Dialogue Completion task

• Picture-cued task

This task involves using an image to elicit oral language performance

• Oral questionnaires

• Directed response task

• Picture-cued task