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SPEAKING PAPER: CATERPILLAR TURNING INTO BUTTERFLY
Elena Onoprienko
Yulia Polshina
Far Eastern Federal University
Test as measuring tool… a language test is a procedure for gathering evidence of general or specific language abilities from performance on tasks designed to provide a basis for predictions about an individual’s use of those abilities in real world contexts.
(McNamara 2000)
Characteristics of a test
Practicality
Validity
Reliability
Current practices
100 years of tradition in Russian/Soviet assessment
practices read and translate read and retell translate sentences from Russian into English topics, topics, topics …
Emphasis on reproduction Highly subjective assessment
Why assess speaking? Linking language production to real-world
contexts Valuing communication over knowledge about
the language Achieving communicative goals effectively Acquiring competence in educational contexts Giving learners a sense of achievement Motivating further learning Providing useful feedback on learning
Glenn Fulcher, 2012
Survey: where respondents are from
Universities Moscow State University Higher School of Economics, National
Research University Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Southern Federal University Far Eastern Federal University Universities from Chelyabinsk, Surgut,
Ulyanovsk, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Tomsk, Saransk, Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, Kharkiv
Skills assessed:
Difficult to test:
Speaking tasks
Nature of Speaking
Spoken language Speaking as interactionSpeaking as a social activitySpeaking as a situation-based
activity
What are we assessing?
Accuracy
Fluency
Communication strategies
Discourse and interactional competence
Task completion
Pragmatic and sociolinguistic competence
Speaking Paper 1
15 years ago
3rd year EFL
majors
Focus on
vocabulary
Why?
Internet
Copy-paste
PowerPoint
Movies
No lists
Old Task
Talk about your favorite actor.
Criteria:
topic vocabulary
accuracy
fluency
Later version
Presentation of an actor/actress
Imagine that you are your favorite actor/actress agent. You have to promote him/her to get a role in a movie. Focus on background, education, career (ups and downs; emphasize personal qualities that helped to achieve goals), previous roles (what movies he/she played in, what challenges had to be faced, what he/she had to be able do to play this or that role – new skills, appearance, etc., achievements (awards, status). Be specific. Speak about 3-5 min.
Sample Speaking Paper 1Actors Contest:
• Talk about one actor/actress, focusing on the features in the table. Your goal is to win the most points in each category.
• Listen to other students’ reports and fill in the table.• At the end of the class count the points, discuss them and decide who’s won.
Sample Speaking Paper 2If a college student gets caught cheating in the US, or Canada,
or Australia, he/she might be expelled from college. In your opinion, is there a problem of cheating in Russian universities? Comment on different attitudes and express your point of view.
CriteriaContentDurationInteractionFluencyGrammar and Vocabulary
Sample Speaking Paper 2
Content 5 4 3 2
Содержание Содержание полностью соответствует заданию; высказывание развернуто, связно и аргументировано; студент иллюстрирует основные аргументы примерами.
Содержание в основном соответствует заданию; высказывание развернуто, аргументировано, но аргументы носят общий характер; студент недостаточно ясно формулирует собственное отношение и/или не подкрепляет его примерами.
В общем, содержание соответствует заданию, но характеризуется слабой аргументацией, общими словами, отсутствием связности; не всегда понятно, как части высказывания связаны между собой; высказывание, недостаточно развернуто.
Студент не приступил к выполнению задания, либо задание не соответствует заявленной теме, либо длительность высказывания меньше 1,5 минут, либо высказывание содержит значительные по объему элементы заученного текста.