Testing - AMT - Chapter 10 Flashcards
Author’s objective of teaching spoken language
Development of Ability to Interact Successfully in Language
(Compehension + Production)
Testing Oral Ability Problem
- Task Representative: Population + Expected Performance
- Elicit Behaviour Representative of Ability
- Sample behaviour validly/reliably scored
Representative Tasks
- Specify all possible content
- Include a representative sample of the specified content when setting tasks
Specify all possible content
- Operations
- Types of text
- Addressees
- Topics
- Dialect, Accent and Style
- Rate of Speech
- Skills
Oral operations
(e.g.)
Expressing, Directing, Describing, Eliciting, Narration, etc…
Oral Skills
(specification types)
- Informational skills
- Interactional skills
- Skills in managing interactions
Elicit a valid sample of oral ability
- Choose Appropriate techniques
- Plan and structure the testing carefully
Appropricate techniques to:
- Elicit a valid sample of oral ability
- Interviews
- Interaction with fellow candidates
- Responses to audio- or video-recorded stimuli.
Relationship Problem (interviewed/superior) Interview testing
Unwilingness to take initiative
e.g. asking for information
How to coin for candidate unwillingness for initiative
- Yes/No warm-up
- Requests for elaboration
- Appearing not to understand
- Invitation to Ask Question
- Interruption
- Abrupt change of topic
semi-direct technique
Audio- or video-recorded responses
Ensure valid and reliable scoring
Create appropriate scales for scoring
- Accuracy
- Appropriacy
- Range
- Flexibility
- Size
Create appropriate scales for scoring
Accuracy:
pronunciation must be clearly intelligible even if some influence of L1 remain. Grammatical lexical accuracy is high etc…
Appropriacy:
the use of language must be appropriate to function and to context.
Range:
a wide range of language must be available to the candidate.
