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The Speaking Towards Excellence Project EDB

The Speaking Towards Excellence Project EDB. Nurturing Teachers’ Competency in Speaking Performance Analysis, Speaking Task Design and Curriculum Planning 10 Nov 2007. Nicole J. Tavares Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong. Setting Appropriate Assessment Tasks for Speaking.

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The Speaking Towards Excellence Project EDB

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  1. The Speaking Towards Excellence ProjectEDB Nurturing Teachers’ Competency in Speaking Performance Analysis, Speaking Task Design and Curriculum Planning 10 Nov 2007 • Nicole J. Tavares • Faculty of Education • The University of Hong Kong

  2. Setting Appropriate Assessment Tasks for Speaking What makes a good Speaking task? Using Speaking Tasks for Assessment

  3. Task to Focus on

  4. Now join your sharing group!

  5. Clearly defined? Structured? Context? Purpose? Information Gap? Problem Solving? Support Is this a ‘can do’ task? Are students given the right degree of challenge? Challenge

  6. Pre-Speaking Phase • Input • Linguistic • Discourse • Experiential • Context • As part of a coherent theme-based curriculum • The G-A-P principles • Authenticity, Relevance & Familiarity • Assessment Criteria • Transparency • Clear Teach-Test Correlations • Student-initiated Criteria • Student-generated Criteria • Support during Preparation • Research • Collaboration? Learning Circles?

  7. While-Speaking Phase • Assessment Conditions • Size of the Audience

  8. Go step-by-step!Develop Students’ Confidence! Pair Work Stand up & Move Around Group Work Present to the Class Present within Groups Sharing in Groups Nunan (1999: 232)

  9. While-Speaking Phase • Assessment Conditions • Size of the Audience • Grouping Arrangements • Aronson’s Jigsaw Approach • Roles  Equal participation • Functional • Situational • Evaluative • Language Templates • Teacher Mediation • Staging of the Assessment

  10. Post-Speaking Phase • Opportunities for … • Self-Evaluation • Peer-Evaluation • Goal-Setting

  11. Self- and Peer-Evaluation Tools

  12. Useful websites • Good Practices in the Teaching and Learning of English http://good-practices.edb.hkedcity.net/ • HKEd City SBA Website – Case Studies of Teaching, Learning and Assessment Sequences http://sba.hkedcity.net/introductorydvd/sttheresa.html

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