1. Lecture 8
Assessing Speaking
Chapter 7
Brown, 2004

2. Lecture’s Objectives:
By the end of this chapter students will be able to:
Review types of speaking
Discuss micro and macro skills of speaking
Outline numerous tasks for assessing speaking

3. Listening and speaking are almost always closely interrelated
***Listening and speaking are almost always closely interrelated. While speaking is a productive skill that can be directly and empirically observed, those observations are invariably colored by the accuracy and effectiveness of a test-taker’s listening skill.

4. Basic types of speaking (p, 141-142)
Imitative
Intensive
Responsive
Interactive
Extensive
*Define and provide one example on each one of the above mentioned types.

5. Micro and Macro skills of speaking
** What is the purpose of determining the macro and micro skills of speaking? (p, 142)
Micro skills: refer to producing the smaller chunks of language such as phonemes, morphemes, words, collocations, and phrasal units.
Macro skills: imply the speakers focus on the larger elements: fluency, discourse, function, style, cohesion, nonverbal communication, and strategic options.
**Read the 16 different objectives to assess in speaking pages:

6. Three important issues to consider as you set out to design speaking tasks: (p, 143-144)
No speaking task s capable of isolating the single skill of oral production.
Eliciting the specific criterion you have designated for a task can be tricky because the beyond the word level , spoken language offers a number of productive potions to test-takers.
Because of the above two characteristics of oral production assessment, it is important to carefully specify scoring procedures for a response so that you achieve as high reliability as possible.

7. Designing assessment tasks:
**Imitative Speaking: (p, )
Word repetition tasks
Phone pass tests
**Intensive speaking: (p, )
Direct response tasks
Read aloud tasks
Sentence/dialogue completion tasks and oral questionnaires
Picture-cued tasks
Translation(of limited stretches of discourse)

8. ***Responsive speaking:(p, 159-166)
Question and answer
Giving instruction and directions
Paraphrasing
Test of spoken English
***Interactive speaking: (p, )
Interview
Role play
Discussion and conversation
Games
Oral proficiency interview

9. ***Extensive speaking: (p, 179-182)
Oral presentation
Picture-cued story-telling
Retelling a story, news event
Translation( of extended prose)