Teacher Conference: Enhancing Effective English Language Assessment in Secondary schools Integrating

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• Teacher Conference Enhancing Effective English
  Language Assessment in Secondary schools
  Integrating Theory and Practice

Layers of ELT knowledge, skills and awareness
required by F4 and F5 teachers on SBA training
workshops
Presented by Dr. Jane Lockwood Mr. Francis
OBrien Ms. Helen Lavender Ms. Jenny
Kwong Centre for Language in Education 22 April
2006
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Skills

• Reading
• Understanding the sub skills of reading
• Choosing appropriate texts and recognizing levels
  of difficulty
• Making the text accessible to the level of the
  learning
• Understanding the principles of the extensive
  reading process

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Skills

• Speaking
• Understanding the domains of communicative
  competence
• Presenting skills
• Interactive discussion skills

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Skills

• Integrating SBA into F4 and F5 curriculum and the
  lesson
• Using SBA descriptors to promote desired language
  behavior
• Teaching speaking skills by
• modelling and deconstructing language in the
  lesson
• Analysing spoken texts for generic structure/
  lexico-grammatical features
• Teaching functional grammar at the right level
• Using a range of controlled practice activities
  to promote and scaffold speaking practice
• Correcting and providing feedback to learners
• Using questions (including concept checking) to
  develop meaningful feedback in the classroom

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Skills

• Task Development
• Designing tasks for teaching, learning and
  assessment
• Recognising and designing easy and difficult
  tasks
• Adapting tasks from existing materials

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Knowledge

• Language Assessment
• Key concepts and terminology for language
  assessment
• Using scales and descriptors
• Internalizing the descriptors developing
  short-cuts
• Relating the assessment back to the classroom
  (feedback, tasks, etc)
• Calibration/ moderation

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Awareness

• Managing Educational Change
• Stakeholders in SBA
• Understanding time needed for educational change
• The role of the teacher/ parents
• Supporting the teacher to manage change
• Developing learning organizations
• Being directly accountable

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Thank you