Assessing Speaking

Types of Speaking
1. Imitative
  1. The ability to imitate a word, phrase or sentence
    1. Activities
      1. Phone pass test
2. Intensive
  1. Production of short stretches of oral language designed to demostrate competence.
    1. Axctivities
      1. Directed response tasks, read-aloud tasks, sentence or dialogue comprehension, picture cued tasks, translation.
3. Responsive
  1. Respons to a spoken stimulus. It allows very limited interaction.
    1. Activities
      1. Question and answer, giving instructions and directions, paraphrasing, test of spoken English
4. Interactive
  1. Allows longer and more complex interaction. It can be transactional(to exchange information) or interpersonal (to mantain social relationships)
    1. Activities
      1. Interview, Role play, conversations, games, oral proficiency interview
5. Extensive
  1. Language style is is frequently more deliberative(planning is involved). It can be story-telling, oral presentations, etc.)
    1. Activities
      1. Oral presentations, picture-cued story-telling, retelling a story, translations.
Skills
1. Micro skills
  1. Their purpose is to produce smaller chunks of language, such as phonemes,morphemes, words, collocations and phrasal units.
2. Macro Skills
  1. They imply the speaker's focus on the larger elements such as fluency, disourse, function, style, cohesion.

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	Created by Luis Ruiz Figueroa almost 8 years ago