Assessment and Testing
Workshops
Assessing first year students’ interactional competence
Maryam Emami and Hélade Scutti Santos (CLIC, Rice University): 1) introduce their approach to assessing first year L2 learners’ interactional competence; 2) provide examples of activities and assessments used in their program; 3) present a sample rubric for assessing IC
From Objectives to Assessment: Developing Interactional Competence for beginning students
Meng Yeh (CLIC, Rice University) discusses on the steps that lead to establishing learning outcomes that are achievable for first year L2 Chinese students and the assessment procedures, both formative and summative, that were adopted to monitor the students’ progress
Assessing Interactional Competence in the Classroom: Using a Rubric
About this workshop Introduction Developing rubrics to assess Interactional Competence (IC) and then applying them to student interaction poses challenges for language teachers in terms of fairness and validity on one hand, and practicality on the other. This workshop aims
Teaching and assessing interactional competence: Redesigning the language curriculum
In this workshop we discuss: – the definition of interactional competence; – the motivation for focusing on IC in the L2 classroom; – and methods of assessment of L2 IC. Download presentation
Implementation and Assessment of Interactional Competence
Maryam Emami: 1) discusses how IC can be assessed in the second language classroom; 2) demonstrates her methods of assessment of IC, including her rubric; and 3) provides examples of the cycle of instruction and assessment of IC that she implements
Multipart Oral Exams: A Conversation-Analytic Perspective
About this workshop Introduction In this workshop, Silvia Kunitz discusses multipart oral exams and how they can be analyzed through a conversation analytic lens. She introduces the rationale behind multipart-oral exams, i.e., a testing format that allows the assessment of