Author: Sari LuomaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521800528
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
This book takes teachers and language testers through the research on the assessment of speaking.
Assessing Speaking
Author: Sari LuomaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521800528
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
This book takes teachers and language testers through the research on the assessment of speaking.
Assessing Speaking in Context
Author: M. Rafael SalaberryPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1788923839
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This edited volume investigates the nature and possible applications of an expanded and reconceptualized theoretical construct of speaking as a dynamic socially-constructed endeavour. It addresses both theoretical perspectives and methodological procedures to define and circumscribe the assessment of contextualized speaking. The chapters focus on the complexity brought about by actual interactional competence in speaking tasks and discuss how testing and assessment models and practices can incorporate recent research findings on the inherently dynamic and situated nature of language use. The volume presents research on language assessment in a variety of languages other than English, including French, Chinese and Japanese. It also examines the role that embodied action (gaze, gesture, orientation to materials and texts in the environment) plays in assessment practices, an area that has heretofore remained under-explored. Chapter 6 is free to download as an open access publication. You can access it here: https://zenodo.org/record/5163340#.YQvJ0IhKjcs
Examining Speaking
Author: Lynda TaylorPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521736706
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
An up-to-date review of the relevant literature on assessing speaking.
Assessing Foreign Language Students’ Spoken Proficiency
Author: Martin EastPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811003033
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book presents an in‐depth study of assessment innovation and its impact on teaching and learning. The context is New Zealand, and the focus is additional languages other than English and the recent introduction of a radical new assessment of students’ spoken proficiency, called interact. The book crosses the traditional theoretical and methodological boundaries associated with language testing research, which focuses on assessment performance, and presents an alternative approach where stakeholders become the centre of interest. It advances our understanding of how assessment innovation impacts on two key groups - teachers and students in schools - based on data collected from a substantial two‐year research project. It presents an account of these stakeholders’ perceptions of the validity and usefulness of the new assessment in comparison with the more traditional test that it has replaced.Assessing Foreign Language Students' Spoken Proficiency makes an outstanding and original contribution to the field of second and foreign language teaching, providing a theory and research-based account of the development of a learner-centred approach to oral proficiency assessment. It is an important resource for teachers and teacher educators as well as assessment and curriculum specialists worldwide. It deserves to be widely read.
Assessing Communication Education
Author: William G. ChristPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136689583
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Designed as a handbook, this text provides media, speech (public speaking, interpersonal, small group, and organizational communication), and theatre educators with both the theoretical and practical ammunition to fight the assessment battles on their campuses. The philosophical implications of accountability are balanced with concrete, specific, and usable assessment strategies. Stressing student, faculty, course, program, department, and institutional assessment, this book's aim is to provide, in one place, information that will help diverse and complex communication programs face the growing challenges in assessment. The book is divided into three sections: background and foundational information for assessment; broad assessment strategies that apply to a variety of media, "speech," and theatre courses and programs; and context-specific assessment strategies. While covering a host of topics, it: * provides an overview of assessment and suggests how it might impact communication education, * discusses the elements of program assessment and how linkage of mission statements with outcomes can lead to strong, innovative programs, * compares and contrasts regional association requirements and presents a specific how-to strategy for writing outcome statements, * discusses teaching evaluation and argues that we need to identify the "what" of teaching before we try to measure the "how," * looks at creative ways for formative and summative course evaluation that starts with the creation of an explicit syllabus, * discusses the use of capstone courses as a way of evaluating not only their major but also how students have integrated their "total" educational experience, * suggests the variety of ways that interpersonal communication can be assessed and calls for future research that stresses the "knowledge" component of learning, * reports on a strategy for developing small group communication assessment measures, and * provides media, speech, and theatre faculty and administrators with the background, understanding and tools to build stonger programs and develop better courses and educational experiences for their students.
Issues in Teaching, Learning and Testing Speaking in a Second Language
Author: Mirosław PawlakPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642383394
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The volume constitutes a state-of-the-art account of issues related to teaching, learning and testing speaking in a second language. It brings together contributions by Polish and international scholars which seek to create links between theory, research and classroom practice, report the findings of studies investigating the impact of linguistic, cognitive and affective factors on the development and use of speaking skills, and provide concrete pedagogic proposals for instruction and assessment in this area. As such, the book will be of interest not only to second language acquisition theorists and researchers, but also to foreign language teachers willing to enhance the quality of speaking instruction in their classrooms.
Models Of Authentic Assessment For Speaking Skills In Tourism Vocational School
Author: Suparmi, M.PdPublisher: Pustaka Galeri Mandiri
ISBN: 6237969179
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Speaking of Health
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309072719
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
We are what we eat. That old expression seems particularly poignant every time we have our blood drawn for a routine physical to check our cholesterol levels. And, it's not just what we eat that affects our health. Whole ranges of behaviors ultimately make a difference in how we feel and how we maintain our health. Lifestyle choices have enormous impact on our health and well being. But, how do we communicate the language of good health so that it is uniformly received-and accepted-by people from different cultures and backgrounds? Take, for example, the case of a 66 year old Latina. She has been told by her doctor that she should have a mammogram. But her sense of fatalism tells her that it is better not to know if anything is wrong. To know that something is wrong will cause her distress and this may well lead to even more health problems. Before she leaves her doctor's office she has decided not to have a mammogram-that is until her doctor points out that having a mammogram is a way to take care of herself so that she can continue to take care of her family. In this way, the decision to have a mammogram feels like a positive step. Public health communicators and health professionals face dilemmas like this every day. Speaking of Health looks at the challenges of delivering important messages to different audiences. Using case studies in the areas of diabetes, mammography, and mass communication campaigns, it examines the ways in which messages must be adapted to the unique informational needs of their audiences if they are to have any real impact. Speaking of Health looks at basic theories of communication and behavior change and focuses on where they apply and where they don't. By suggesting creative strategies and guidelines for speaking to diverse audiences now and in the future, the Institute of Medicine seeks to take health communication into the 21st century. In an age where we are inundated by multiple messages every day, this book will be a critical tool for all who are interested in communicating with diverse communities about health issues.
Teaching Speaking
Author: Christine C. M. GohPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110701123X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"Drawing on wide-ranging literature from a variety of relevant disciplines, as well as their own extensive experience in teaching spoken English, the authors give a fascinating, comprehensive, and insightful account of the nature of second language speaking skills. The research and theory they survey then serves as the basis for the principles, strategies, and procedures they propose for the teaching of spoken English. This book will, therefore, provide an invaluable resource for teachers, teachers in training, and researchers, providing both a state-of-the-art survey of the field as well as a source of practical ideas for those involved in planning, teaching, and evaluating courses and materials for the teaching of spoken English"--
HOLISTIC vs. ANALYTIC ASSESSMENT of SPEAKING IN EFL - ATTITUDES, SCORES and THE RATERS
Author: Engin Evrim ÖNEMPublisher: Astana Yayınları
ISBN: 6258045855
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
HOLISTIC vs. ANALYTIC ASSESSMENT of SPEAKING IN EFL - ATTITUDES, SCORES and THE RATERS