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What's the most fundamental skill to acquire?
Speaking
What are the factors considered for designing a speaker syllabus?
Age, level, learning context, aim.
What are the two basic types of interaction in foreign language classrooms?
Teacher–student interaction and student–student interaction.
This require preparation in the form of research, selection of relevant questions and prior analysis.
Interviews.
What is analytic scoring?
- is a method of assessing speaking in which the examiner evaluates different aspects of a learner’s performance separately and assigns a score to each one.
- It is a type of scoring that evaluates different aspects of the learner’s performance separately, giving a score for each criterion.
How did CLT contribute/add to oral discourse?
Introduced numerous forms of interaction, developing forms of speaking practice.
What does a task-based approach consist of?
A language is best learned through using it, rather than learned and then used.
Why is student–student interaction important in language learning?
Because it increases student talking time, promotes the use of the target language, encourages cooperation, and helps learners develop communication and social skills.
What is a class survey? Give an example.
Is a version of collaborative interview.
Whay is holistic scoring?
is a method used in assessing speaking where the examiner evaluates the overall performance of the learner and gives a single score based on the general impression of the performance.
How do learners feel when they finish a language course?
That they are not sufficiently prepared for speaking.
Difference between task-based approach and genre-based approach?
TBA gives priority to the use of the language rather than what students produce. GBA imitates models, is not useful in real contexts.
Explain the student-student interaction. Give an example.
Is students´ taking time.
Mention other speaking activities.
Storytelling, jokes, anecdotes, role play, dramas, simulations.
Mention two criteria commonly used to evaluate speaking skills.
Grammar, vocabulary, discourse management, and interactive communication.
What should an advance language course create?
Optimal conditions for developing learners' sociocultural knowledge, grammar, vocabulary, phonology.
Is to become effective as a speaker, the learners needs to achieve a degree of ease and a ….
A natural level of speed and rhythm, frequent speaking practice in order to acquire such fluency.
Mention the IRE model.
Teacher initiation, student response, teachers evaluation of that response (teacher-student interaction).
How does the speaking activity need to be in order to ensure effective use of the language?
Productive, purposeful, interactive, challenging, safe and authentic.
Why is testing the oral proficiency of foreign language students considered a complex task?
Because it is difficult to choose appropriate elicitation techniques, design valid tests, and assess speech quickly and objectively.
_______ combine the process of conceptualizing, formulating, articulating, self-monitoring and negotiating.
a)Native language b)Target language c)Both
Native languae and target language, both, combine the process of conceptualizing, formulating, articulating, self-monitoring and negotiating.
What are the main components that a modern multi-layered speaking syllabus should specify?
The target aspects of the speaking skill to be taught, as well as the grammar and vocabulary components.
Mention the elements for analyzing and describing classroom interaction.
Forms of teacher control of classroom communication, students perception, students use of target language, the extent to which the existing patterns of communication create opportunities for students to use the target language for learning.
Mention and explain the 3 stages of developing speaking skill.
Awareness: learners are made aware of featuring of the target language. Apropiation: the features are integrated into their existing knowledge- base. Autonomy: learners develop the capacity to mobilize their features under conditions without assistance.
Instead of tests, what else can you use to measure students' progress?
Interviews, live monologues, collaborative tasks, recorded monologues, role plays, discussions.