Assessing Speaking and Listening

Assessing Speaking and Listening

created by: Diana Anahí Huertas Melara 201706548 Silvia Mishelle Lecointe García 201705686

Briefly introduction

Learning English may have some aspects that students will be facing during their acquisition process of the language. Students will be able to develop skills through English such as reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In this section, it will focus on the skills of speaking and listening and how to assess them, because every skill has to be assessed in different ways and with particular tasks and methods which will make students learn the English language easily.

Assessing Speaking in English Language

Speaking is maybe one of the hardest skills that students develop in English, because it includes the pronunciation, critical thinking, the fluency, and how it is interpreted the ideas, English teachers have to be aware that assessing this skills is crucial in their students to know if these are able to communicate with other people, delivery a message or make a presentation about any topic.Here there are some tasks or activities about how to assess speaking in language classroom:

The interview

Telling a story

Oral presentation

Group discussion

Assessing Listening in English Language

Listening is special too because spoken language, especially when it is formal, has a number of unique features including the use of incomplete utterances. Experience of informal spoken English together with an appreciation of other spoken factors, the tone of the voice, the intonation of the speakers use, rhythm, and background noise, will help students to tease meaning out of such speech phenomena.We have examples of micro and macro skills, we can get a good idea of what our techniques need to cover in the domain of listening comprehension.

1. Intensive listening tasks, distinguishing phonemic pairs Ex. Grass – glass; leave – live.

2. Responsive listening tasks Question Ex. What time is it? – Multiple choice responses Question Ex. What time is it?

3. Selective listening tasks Listening cloze (students fill in the blanks)

4. Extensive listening tasks Dictation (students listen (usually 3 times) and write a paragraph) Dialogue (students hear dialogue – MC comprehension questions)