The purpose of the study is to investigate frequently
used speaking tasks in English classes at tertiary level in Turkey and
differences in language instructors’ speaking activity choices for informal
oral assessment with regard to their academic majors. As data collection tool,
an electronic questionnaire was sent to 82 participant language instructors
from different universities in Turkey in the academic year 2016-2017. The
questionnaire included speaking activities that can be used with assessment
purpose and the participants were asked to report the frequency of the
activities they used. The data which was collected through the electronic
questionnaire was analysed by using SPSS 22 software. Kruskal-Wallis test
revealed statistically significant differences between participants’ academic
majors and speaking activities they used for informal oral assessment. Seven
oral assessment activities were found to differ in frequency according to
academic majors; picture-cued tasks, giving instructions/directions, role-play,
discussions/conversations, games, picture-cued storytelling, and retelling
story/news event. The differences were compared by mean ranks and medians, and
these differences were classified according to the creativity the task
required. In the light of the findings, practical and theoretical implications
are given with concluding remarks.
Speaking oral assessment communicative competence academic major
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Bölüm | Araştırma Makalesi |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 1 Şubat 2019 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 24 Eylül 2018 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2019 Cilt: 9 Sayı: 1 |
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