DEVELOPING AND ASSESSING SPEAKING IN A COMPETENCE BASED CURRICULUM

H.O.D.

NOURA AL-BEDAIWI

SPEAKING SKILL

• It is challenging to have students acquire a foreign language in a spoken form. The speaking skill needs practice outside class doors.• “Brown (1994) labels speaking as the most challenging skill for students

because of the set of features that characterize oral discourse:- Contractions, vowel reductions and elision; - The use of slang and idioms; - Stress, rhythm and intonation; - The need to interact with at least one other speaker.”

SPEAKING SKILL

Speaking is an “activity requiring the integration of many subsystems…all these factors combine to make speaking a second or foreign language a formidable task for language learners…yet for many people, speaking is seen as the central skill” (Bailey and Savage 1994: 6-7).

Authentic DialoguesHave students speak through their own experiences in a conversation.

PBLHave students communicate while making a project. It might be challenging to have them not speak in their own mother tongue; encouragement is needed therefore.

Language to their LevelSpeak in a simple language and encourage them to use the words they already learned.

HOW TO DEVELOP THE SPEAKING SKILL?

Safe EnvironmentDo not correct your students all the time. Instead you can repeat their answers with the correction.

FunLet them speak without stress. Plan enjoyable tasks to their levels using gamification techniques.

HOW TO DEVELOP THE SPEAKING SKILL?

Formative

Assessment

Presentations

Projects

Games

Tasks

worksheets

Summative

Assessment

Presentations

Projects

Tasks

Worksheets

MEASURING SPEAKING

Assessing Speaking Through

Curriculum Standards

and Descriptors

Varried Tasks

Suitable Assessment

Tools (observatio

n – portfolio, rubrics,

etc.)

Spoken Interaction

• I can interact in a simple way provided the other person is prepared to repeat or rephrase things at a slower rate of speech and help me formulate what I’m trying to say.

Spoken Production

• I can use simple phrases and sentences to describe where I live and people I know.

LEVELS IN SPOKEN INTERACTION AND SPOKEN PRODUCTION IN CEF

REFERENCE

The Importance of Teaching Listening and Speaking Skills; TRABAJO FIN DE MÁSTER. CURSO: 2011 – 2012.