Designing Assessment Task: Intensive Speaking

Directed Response Task: teacher elicits a particular grammatical form.

Read Aloud Tasks: this task is easy to administrate by selecting a passage and incorporating tests specs.

Completition Tasks and Oral Questionnaires: it requires that speaker full fill the gaps in an oral way.

Pictured-Cued Tasks: it is one of the most popular way to elicit a description from the test takers according to a picture.

There are different ways to apply this task one of them is:

In which you are supposed to give directions.

Translation (of limited stretches of discourse)

  • Translation is still used in some countries where interpreters are needed.
  • It is a device to check oral production.
  • Scoring is easy. 


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Designing assessment tasks: Responsive Speaking

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Question and answer Consists of one or two brief interactions with a interviewer. They can vary from easy to complex questions. There are display and referential questions. Remember to know exactly what you are eliciting from your students. Eliciting open-ended responses: Example: What do you think of the weather? Eliciting questions from the speaker: Do you have any questions for me? Giving instructions and directions Be very clear. Be direct. The instructor poses the problem, the student responds. Eliciting instructions or directions: Example: describe how to make a typical dish from your country? Students must respond accordingly. Paraphrasing The test taker must hear a couple of sentences and then they must try to reconstruct what they have heard in their own words. Paraphrasing a story: For example: paraphrase the following story in your own words. Students must respond with a few sentences. There are other examples, such as paraphrasing a pho...
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