I keep the scales of meaningfulness, discourse competence, grammatical competence, task completion, and intelligibility, included in Kim, 2010, as criterion.
Dear Riaz, I have asked a question similar to yours before but i have got a few answers for it. For more information, please refer to the following link:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are_there_any_guidelines_and_criteria_to_assess_and_test_my_students_oral_proficiency
I would suggest that you consult with a speech-language pathologist who could assess the full range of communication needs and identify any deficits including the areas of receptive and expressive vocabulary knowledge and use; morpho-syntactic knowledge and use (language structure and form); as well as the pragmatic (social) aspect. Content, form and use should all be included in a language evaluation. In terms of speech, there may be some sounds to address if one did not have those in their birth tongue (e.g.,'th"). By the way, there are SLPs that specialize in accent modification...
Dear Nailah Riaz,
Please find the attached file. It is an article about how to test and assess communicative competence. I hope it helps you.
Regards
Thanks Dr Hamad Al-khresheh, I find the referred article quite facilitating!
Dear Kazemian, the recommended link would surely guide me to effective scales of measuring Oracy.
My colleagues and I have a rubric that we used to evaluate oral proficiency in a pre-test/post-test methodology. The rubric divides proficiency into dimensions of fluency, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and content.
You can see it at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268075604_Oral_Proficiency_Rubric
Data Oral Proficiency Rubric
We have had good results through the use of an oral proficiency test that measures the chunking skill of the speaker. The test is computer adaptive and variable length. Initial items are short, simple sentences. As the test proceeds, the sentences become more complex and longer. The theory is that to repeat the sentence, the speaker must chunk the language input. This is a subconscious process that requires language patterns to be recognized automatically. We use Speech Recognition software to recognize the language input. This can also grade the quality of the pronunciation to some degree, though acceptable English has a wide range of accents that should be allowed.
Hi Nailah,
That depends on learner's age, proficiency level, grade level, language needs, and academic needs.
There are several professionally developed speaking test including ACTFL Oral Proficiency Guidelines or IELTS or TOEFL test of spoken English, which rate learner's speaking ability from novice through superior levels.
I recommend evaluating the following disciplines separately and calculating the average score:
Amount of information successfully communicated
Quality of language structure
Flow
Pronunciation
Word choice
Overall impression
Thanks Alireza Salehi Nejad, I can relate to the first one under the scale of meaningfulness and task completion, the second, the second last and the last one under discourse competence, the third and fourth under intelligibility. I still need to have a scale for grammatical competence to support the second, the second last and the last one under discourse competence. That means, I need to have concrete scales like Kim (2010) recommends.
Ali Rahimi Thanks for sharing the articles . Please see my research article :
Riaz, N., Haidar, S., Hassan, R., (2019). Developing English Speaking Skills: Enforcing Testing Criteria. Global Social Sciences Review (GSSR), IV, (II), 183 – 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).18
Thank you for raising this question and thank you all for your interesting suggestions. I can also suggest the IB (International Baccalaureate) criteria which have six phases (Language Acquisition which a second or foreign language). See the following guide:
https://www.spps.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=38371&dataid=21214&FileName=language_acquisition_guide_2014.pdf
Especially look at pages 49-92. It can be inspiring!
Abdelmajid Bouziane thanks for the share. I have recently completed one research, reference: Riaz, N., Haidar, S., Hassan, R., (2019). Developing English Speaking Skills: Enforcing Testing Criteria. Global Social Sciences Review (GSSR), IV, (II), 183 – 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).18
Iam interested in assessment literacy for speaking skills. I understand there might be more than 100 ways to assess speaking performances. As Educationist we need to do better than every present effort.
Therefore, I shall get back to the same question after using your recommended module within phases 1-6. Thanks once again.
