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Developing an examiner instruction video for assessment of functional oral interaction

Developing an examiner instruction video for assessment of functional oral interaction. THE CERTIFICATE OF DUTCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.  Administered worldwide  Functional and task-based exams  From language needs to language profiles. THE 6 DOMAINS.

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Developing an examiner instruction video for assessment of functional oral interaction

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  1. Developing an examiner instruction video for assessment of functional oral interaction

  2. THE CERTIFICATE OF DUTCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE  Administered worldwide  Functional and task-based exams  From language needs to language profiles

  3. THE6DOMAINS  Tourist and informal language proficiency  Societal language proficiency • Professional language proficiency • Academic language proficiency • Language proficiency in practical professions • Language proficiency in higher education

  4. C2 • C1 • B2 • B1 • A2 • A1 PTIT PMT PPT PAT PTPBPTHO

  5. STRUCTURE OF EACH EXAM • Integrated language skills → similar to natural language tasks • Three parts (pragmatic reasons): Part A: tests listening comprehension Part B: tests reading and writing ability Part C: tests speaking ability

  6. DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUCTION VIDEO Why? • Question from the examiners for more support concerning instructions for administration • Striving for standardization and transparency in the administration → 6th minimum standard of ALTE

  7. ALTE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR QUALITY OF EXAMINATIONS 6th minimum standard: ‘Examinations have to be administered according to clear, transparent, established procedures and the institutes who administer the exams have to have access to regulations about how to do so’

  8. TENSION • Need for standardization, transparency and intelligible instructions • Examiners work on a voluntary basis: instructions have to be friendly and not too compulsory → Solution: instruction video

  9. STRUCTURE OF THE DVD  Recieving the exams  Conducting Part A  Conducting Part B  Conducting Part C  Sending back the exams In each part suggestions for good practice Survey of the information in a manual

  10. HOW TO CONDUCT PART C ?  5 conversations  Do’s and dont’s for the examiner  Reflection with other examiner  Solutions for the dont’s • Example: The hotel room

  11. EXAMPLE: THE HOTELROOM  Conversate naturally  Ask the candidate to speak Dutch if he/she speaks in his/her mother language  Keep a calm speaking rate and stick to the point

  12. QUESTIONS?

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