assessing students' modern language speaking through formative assessment tuttle
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Help your students to improve in their modern language/ foreign language communication, speaking, through formative assessment. Change ACTFL proficiencies into function speaking goals to help your students speaking. Increase speaking in the classroom. Monitor the studentsTRANSCRIPT
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Improving Students' Modern Language Speaking through Formative Assessment Part 2 - MonitoringBy Dr. Harry Grover Tuttle
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Previously Part IThe Importance of Students' Speaking in Modern Language Class
YouTube Video http://bit.ly/mlspeak
Or Slideshare http://slidesha.re/flspeakss
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We want our students to do more than crawl in the target language.
We want them to run.
ACTFL has identified speaking levels from basic crawling at the Novice level, to walking at the Intermediate level, and running at higher levels.
Do your students crawl, walk or run in the target language?
ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines – Speaking
Superior-level speakers :• Converse fully in formal and informal settings on topics related to personal, public, and professional/scholarly interests
Advanced-level speakers :• Converse in most informal and some formal settings on topics of personal and public interest
Intermediate-level speakers :• participate in simple, direct conversations on generally predictable topics related to daily activities and personal environment
Novice-level speakers:• respond to simple questions in memorized phrases and some personalized recombinations for a very limited number of immediate needs
Formative AssessmentThe process of students immediately moving forward from their present diagnosed learning to the expected learning goal. (Tuttle, 2010)
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Focus on improvement
Not a grade
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Our students become stuck in their speaking and cannot get out without our giving them new speaking strategies.
We offer our students a safety rope, formative assessment, to successfully climb up in their speaking.
Tuttle, 2009
Instruction
Tuttle, 2009
Topic: FamilyLanguage function and amount/level
I can___Name ten family members.
___Give the names and ages of ten family members and state their relationship to me.
___Describe three of them with at least four descriptive words each.
___Describe three family members' likes/dislikes and favorite activities.
Textbooks identify vocabulary topics but not language functions for the topics.
“I can” statements tell what function the student can do and how well.
Have you identified the language functions you want your students to do for each topic?
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Monitor
Assess speaking?
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Until students speak in the target language, we are in total darkness as to their ability.
We need to monitor the students' speaking.
How many times each class do your students' speak in the target language?
Precise Language Goal:
Which Language Function?
Socialize (greetings)
Give information
Elaborate
Give opinions
Persuade
Compare
Maintain a conversation
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We identify a topic and then a specific language function.
We give our students many classroom opportunities to speak in the target language.
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We monitor their speaking.
We do not try to remember their speaking scores based on rubric, checklist or “I can” statements.
We do record their speaking in a spreadsheet to compare to future speaking for the same language function.
How often do you record data about your students' speaking?
Tuttle, 2009
http://www.eyeoneducation.com/prodinfo.asp?number=7096-9
Eye on Education Books: http://is.gd/tbook
Based on ACTFL Proficiencies
Includes a technique to assess the speaking of all students in your classroom in 3 minutes.
Identifies 15+ language functions
For each language function, provides 10+ strategies for students to use to improve.
Help your students go from crawlers to runners in their target language speaking.
Harry Grover Tuttle, Ed. D.
Instructor /Author/ Consultant(Speaking, Culture, Technology, Smartphones)
Book: Improving Foreign Language Speaking through Formative Assessment http://is.gd/tbook
His Spanish speaking class room activities at Teacherspayteachers: http://bit.ly/tpthtuttle
Blog http://www.eduwithtechn.wordpress.com
This as a Youtube Video http://bit.ly/MLFAP2