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Evaluating Speaking Skills in the Classroom: A Workshop for Teachers
Author(s) -
Duncan Cynthia K.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1987.tb02909.x
Subject(s) - class (philosophy) , principal (computer security) , mathematics education , set (abstract data type) , psychology , foreign language , language proficiency , pedagogy , computer science , artificial intelligence , programming language , operating system
This workshop, which originated as part of a teacher‐training program at the University of Tennessee and was presented at the Tennessee Foreign Language Teacher Association's Conference in the fall of 1985, is intended to help teachers establish goals and guidelines for assigning the “class participation” portion of a student's grade. The principal motive behind the workshop is to make teachers more aware of the need to set standards for oral proficiency in the classroom, to conduct their classes in such a way as to promote maximum oral participation by students, and to be as objective as possible in assigning class participation grades. It is not intended to solve the problems inherent in evaluating oral proficiency in the classroom setting, but merely to guide teachers in defining and formulating the standards by which students' performance is to be assessed.