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• Assessment is the gathering of information for a specific purpose.

Validity Is valid for the learners who will be taking the test

Reliability the results should be consistent when different teachers adminiter the tests and/or different teacher score them

Validity

Reliability

Background to assessing young learners

Reasonable expectations :

Make sure that the expectations for your learners are

reasonable.

Wait time :

Is the amount of time that the teacher waits for a learner to

respond to a question.

Transitioning into English :

Instructions to learners :

Tests should assess specific aspects of language use and not

if children can understand the instructions and format of the

test.

Talking to Strangers :

children need to be shown that the person assessing them

can be trusted

Oral and written language

activities can easily be used for

classroom-based for assessment

when there is criteria, including an

aim, as well as a feedback

mechanism.

Listening skills

• There are two main components of listening assessment in the young learner classroom. The first is the assessment of phonemic awareness the ability to distinguish between different sounds.

• You can assess learners’ listening comprehension of directions by observing them as you give Total Physical Response ( TPR) instructions.

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A. Comprehension

B. Fluently

C. Vocabulary

D. Pronunciation

E. Grammar

Listening skills

• Speaking skills can be assessed by asking

young learners questions and engaging

them in conversations.

• When you are teaching speaking , you will

want to set up situations where children will

be required to use a specific grammatical

constractions.

Story Map “a graphic summary of a story

Writing is assessed by eliciting and examining a sample of writing

The learners can write a sample consisting of a sentence, paragraph or essay

Portfolio is a collection of his or her individual work

For the portfolio teacher and learner

select samples of classroom that

illustrate what has been done in class

Assessing listening comprehension is to show

you the concepts and techniques discussed in the

chapter

The focus in often on listening since it is easier to assessment receptive skill than productive skill when

dealing with groups of learners

Assessment is becoming more

prominent in both ESL and EFL

programs as a teacher it is

something that you will be called

to do on a continual basis. The

purpose of this chapter was to

explore language assessment it

relates to young learners.