Assesing Speaking and Writing Presented by: Rizka, Ricky and Sandy Assesing Speaking and Writing

Assesing Speaking Why do we asses speaking skill? Important part of life Important part of a language curriculum Assessing speaking is challenging So many dimensions..... Linked with personality, intelligence, culture, context… Important to define or to ensure fairness (Luoma:2004)

Micro Skill of Speaking Oral Presentation (Brown: 2001;142) Micro Skill of Speaking Macro Skill of Speaking

Imitative Speaking

Intensive Speaking

Another Scoring category: Other categories for picture-cued scoring. Grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, pronounciation, and task (acomplshing the objective of the elicited task)

Responsive Speaking

Interactive Speaking

Extensive Speaking

Assessing Writing Assessing Writing publishes articles, book reviews, conference reports, and academic exchanges concerning writing assessments of all kinds, including traditional ('direct' and standardized forms of) testing writing, alternative performance assessments (such as portfolios), workplace sampling and classroom assessment

(Brown: 2004;221) Micro Skill of Writing Macro Skill of Writing

Genres of Writing Academic Writing Personal Writing Job-Related Writing

Basic Types of Writing Assessment Responsive and Extensive writing Intensive (controlled) writing Imitative writing Basic Types of Writing Assessment Responsive and Extensive writing

Assessing Writing Imitative Writing : Task in (Hand) Writing Letters, Words, and Punctuation Intensive (Controlled) Writing : Dictation and Dicto-Comp, Grammatical Transformation Tasks, Picture-Cued Tasks, Vocabulary Assessment Tasks, Ordering Task, Short Answer and Sentence Completion Tasks Responsive and Extensive Writing : Paraphrasing, Guided Question and Answer, Paragraph Construction Tasks, Strategic Options

Imitative Writing Copying

Intensive Writing

Scoring Scale for Picture-Cued Story

Responsive and Extensive Writing Paraphrasing “Reading English is considered as the most important skill to be taught on EFL students.” (Ricky, 184:2005) It means that reading skill must be placed as the priority of learning English for Indonesian students Assessment Criteria: Primary: Similiarity Secondary : Discourse : Grammar : Vocabulary

Guided Question and Answer

Scoring (Brown:2004;242) Holistic Score Analytic Scoring Primary Trait Scoring

Conclussion

Sources: Brown, H., 2004, Language Assessment Principles and Classroon Practices, Longman Inc., New York. Louma, Sari., 2004, Asssessing Speaking, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.