Thursday, November 6, 2008

Criterias that I would use to asses my students' performance when speaking

This is my set of criteria I would take into account when assesing a speaking task
  • I wouldn't interrupt my students to correct before they had finished
  • I would take into account what they could achieved
  • I would comment on what was correct not just on what was wrong
  • I wouldn't correct my students' pronunciation mistakes while they are speaking.
  • I would give them either an oral but personal feedback or a written one. In fact I lke the written one the most because they could keep the sheet of paper I would give them with my message on it , soemthing something like 'great presentation, good job'

Do you agree with it? What would you change?

I'm all ears....

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Do you agree with this sequence of strategies that our students use when they find difficulties in reading?

  1. 'I think about whether the word is important for understanding the whole text'
  2. I read on to see if the word is repeated'
  3. 'I start again from the beginning of the sentence'
  4. 'I say the word out loud'
  5. 'I look to see if the word has some part I know'
  6. 'I study the words around it'
  7. 'I ask the other students in my group'
  8. ' I ask my teacher to explain'
  9. ' I think if there is a Spanish word like it'
  10. ' I go to my dictionary for a translation'
  11. 'I write it in my notebook'

Now tell me what you think ....