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Direct linkAbdullah Al-Abri; Fatemeh Ranjbaran Madiseh; Mostafa Morady Moghaddam – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
Enhancing students' lexical fluency and academic performance in speaking exams presents a significant challenge for English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors. The pursuit of effective tools to engage students and facilitate their learning process has been ongoing. The incorporation of technology in EFL learning contexts, particularly through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Koizumi, Rie – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
In Japanese secondary schools, speaking assessment in English classrooms is designed, conducted, and scored by teachers. Although the assessment is intended to be used for summative and formative purposes, it is not regularly or adequately practiced. This paper reports the problems (i.e., lack of continuous speaking assessment, limited speaking…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Download full textSteele, Pauline – 1990
Issues surrounding the testing and evaluation of speaking in Singapore secondary schools are examined, including the questions of what skills and knowledge a speech evaluator should possess and what model of spoken knowledge--Received Pronunciation (RP) or Singapore English--should be provided. Oral tests, developed for the English language…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Evaluators, Foreign Countries
Gonzalez, Barbara – 1984
Results of a 1983 survey of Texas foreign language teachers reveal their views and concerns about a new state law requiring all prospective language teachers to pass an oral proficiency interview for certification beginning in 1986. Of the 142 respondents, most were Spanish teachers, high school teachers, and teachers with more than 10 years…
Descriptors: Certification, College Role, Competency Based Teacher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Pino, Barbara Gonzalez – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1998
Previous literature on classroom testing of second language speech skills provides several models of both task types and rubrics for rating, and suggestions regarding procedures for testing speaking with large numbers of learners. However, there is no clear, widely disseminated consensus in the profession on the appropriate paradigm to guide the…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Interrater Reliability
Galloway, Vicki, Ed.; Herron, Carol, Ed. – 1995
Based on the questions of second language teachers concerning classroom practice, generated by survey, research on aspects of second language teaching and learning was reviewed and is summarized here. In each case, a question or questions are posed and a brief discussion follows, in layman's language and based on relevant research, with a brief…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Strategies, Educational Technology
