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OverviewCommunicative language teaching is based on the notion that involving learners in interactive tasks where meaningful dialogue and functional language is transferred will promote learning. Curriculum development, which includes assessment, must integrate information, skills, objectives and training to meet the challenges facing the students now and in the future. Many teachers feel ill equipped to assess spoken language though they acknowledge the importance of assessing their students’ communicative competence. This book describes comprehensive research undertaken to identify critical components of formative speaking tests, investigates whether diagnostic oral skills tests are available, and leads to the development of a framework for designing formative oral speaking tests which reflect previous teaching / learning in the classroom. Altogether 246 teachers, trainers, and language testing experts, and 110 students participated in the study. Full Product DetailsAuthor: JoAnn Salvisberg-SmithPublisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Edition: New edition Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9783034304702ISBN 10: 3034304706 Pages: 227 Publication Date: 14 January 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContents: Critical Components of Effective Instruments of Diagnostic Oral Skills Assessment: Content validity, authentic language tasks, summative versus formative evaluation, norm- versus criterion-referencing - Current Methods of Oral Skills Assessment: criteria, method, validity, reliability, frequency - Availability of Diagnostic Testing Material - Implementation and Evaluation of Guidelines.ReviewsAuthor InformationJo Ann Salvisberg currently lectures at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Business, Luzern, Switzerland, and works as a freelance trainer. She has been involved in TESOL since 1990, primarily teaching adult learners, and began doing teacher training in 2001. In addition to the CTEFLA (Certificate for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults), she completed her studies with an M.Ed. in ELT in 2001, and a PhD in TEFL (Teaching English to Speakers fo Other Languages) and Social Psychology in Education in 2007 with a primary research focus on communicative skills assessment in the EFL classroom. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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