ORAL LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT

YON FREDY ESPINOZA.MARIA CILENA CUELLAR

YULIETH QUINTANA MARTINEZ

What is oral language? At the most basic level, oral language means communicating with other people.

Oral language development across the curriculum does not mean teaching children to speak as much as we mean improving their ability to talk or communicate more effectively.

To speak in more effective ways requires

particular attention and constant practice.

ORAL LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT

There are many different oral language assessment tools being used by schools.

Informal tools include observations in a variety of contexts:

in social and academic contexts• during classroom activities in pairs, small groups

or whole class• during presentations (news, debates, speeches

etc).

ORAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL

• Oral language assessment of English Language learners in school aims a student´s ability to communicate for both basic communicative and academic porpuse.

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

• Whether of classroom settings, English language learners use language functions to express meaning.

Language functions. Communicative language functions. Academic language functions.

CRITERIA FOR ORAL LANGUAGE COMPETENCE:

PLANING FOR ASSESSMENT• Assessment tasks should provide students with an

opportunity to display the knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes they have developed and motivate them by recognising what they have accomplished. Determining how a unit of work will be assessed needs to be considered at the start of unit planning so that it ensures the characteristics of effective assessment are addressed.

ASSESSMENT In the primary grades, a child’s oral language ability is

the basis for beginning literacy instruction. Initial formal assessments, ongoing formative

assessments during the year, as well as summative assessments will provide information regarding a child’s oral language skills