Event

Assessing Spoken Language

Sunday, August 17th, 2014, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Darren Lingley (Kochi University)

This workshop will cover issues in assessing small group oral interaction. Participants will use rating scales (keeping the conversation going, quality of content, grammar/vocabulary intelligibility, and pronunciation intelligibility) to assess three sets of Japanese learners. In the assessment of spoken language, there is wide variation in how raters evaluate output, and how scales are interpreted. In this workshop, Darren Lingley will suggest ways to more consistently evaluate spoken interaction, and discuss some of the issues in assessing oral proficiency for placement purposes.

Darren Lingley is Professor of Intercultural Communication and Comparative Culture at Kochi University. He is the immediate past Editor of JALT Journal, the applied research journal of the Japan Association of Language Teachers, and currently serves as JALT Publications Board Chair.

Walking Directions from Odakyu Sagamiono Station:

1. Exit Sagamiono Station North Exit
2. Turn Right before Station Square Shopping Complex
3. Turn Left at the courtyard and follow the covered walkway to Bono Sagamiono Stay on the 2nd floor of Bono Sagamiono
4. Turn Left to the South Mall immediately after the SoftBank shop
5. Take the escalator one floor up to the 3rd floor of the South Mall
6. Unicom Plaza Sagamihara is next to the elevators

Organization: West Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (West Tokyo JALT)

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1,000 yen

Venue: Unicom Plaza Sagamihara, Seminar Room 1

Location: Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

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