ASSESSING SPEAKING PART II

Instead of offering pictures or written stimuli, the test-taker is given a native language word, phrase or sentence and is asked to translate it

• Responsive speaking

• Translation

• Question and answer

This task can consist of one or two questions from an interviewer, or they can make up a portion of a whole battery of questions and prompts in an oral interview.

• Picture cued

• Intensive speakig

• Question and answer

The technique for this task is simple; the administrator poses the problem, and the test-taker responds.

• Question and answer

• Giving instructions and directions

• Paraphrasing

A more authentic context for this task is aurally receiving and orally relaying a message.

• Paraphrasing

• Question and answer

• Giving instructions and directions

For this task a test administrator and a test-taker sit down in a direct face-to-face exchange and proceed through a protocol of questions and directives

• Interview

• Question and answer

• Giving instructions and directions

In this part of the interview through a series of preplanned questions, the interviewer stimulates the test-taker to respond using expected or predicted forms and functions

• Probe

• Warm up

• Level check

In this part of the interview questions and prompts challenge test-takers to go to the heights of their ability, to extend beyond the limits of the interviewer's expectation through increasingly difficult questions

• Wind down

• Level check

• Probe

This task frees students to be somewhat creative in their linguistic output

• Roleplay

• Interview

• Games