7 Oral Production Tests

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7 Oral Production Tests

• 7.1 Some difficulties in testing the speaking skills
  • What are the difficulties in testing the speaking skills?
    • Questions relating to the criteria for measuring the speaking skills and to the weighting given to such components as correct pronication remain largely unanswered.
    • It is neither possible nor desirable to separate the speaking skills from the listening skills.
    • Another difficulty in oral testing is that of administration.
• 7.2 Reading aloud
  • What are the actual situations in real life in which the testees may be required to read aloud?
    • One of the most common tasks is that of reading aloud directions or instructions to a friend, collegue or fellow-worker.
    • Another situation which might occur in real life is that in which the student is asked to read aloud (part of) a letter he has received.
  • A test more useful in many ways than reading aloud is the retelling of a short story or incident.
• 7.3 Conversational exchange
  • types
    • Type1 The testees are given a series of situations and are required to construct sentences on the lines of a certain pattern or group of patterns.
    • Type2 No model responses are given and the students are free to use whatever patterns they wish.
    • Type3 The students hear a stimulus to which they must respond in any appropriate way.
    • Type4 The stimuli and responses form part of a longer dialogue and the situation is thus developed.
    • Type5 This item takes the form of an incomplete dialogue with promptus whispered in the student's ear.
• 7.4 Using pictures for assessing oral production
• 7.5 The oral interview
  • what is the main problem of oral interview?
    • The students are susceptible to psychological tensions and also to constraints of style and register necessary in such a situation.
  • what are the solutions to this problem?
    • One solution is to have the class teacher as the interviewer; if an exteranl examiner is required, he or she may sit at the back of the room or in any other obscure place.
    • Another solution is to interview students in pairs or even threes.
  • What is the chief danger in conducting interviews with pairs of students?
    • It may result from personality conflicts or the dominance of one of the members of the pair.
• 7.6 Some other techniques for oral examining
  • The short talk
  • Group discussion and role playing
• 7.7 General conclusions
  • A comprehensive and balanced examination of oral production might consist of:
    • an oral interview involving two students;
    • a short problem-solving activity involving the comparison or sequencing of pictures.
    • a longer activity comprising group discussion or a role play