Assessing speaking in English: grading as an expression of teachers' subjectivity
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2017v20n3p93Keywords:
Speaking assessment, Subjectivity, Grading.Abstract
Taking into account the significant literature in Language Teaching Assessment, this article aims at understanding and discussing, based on studies about reliability (BROWN & BAILEY, 1984; BROWN, 2004; SCHOFFEN, 2009) and speaking assessment (BACHMAN, 1990; BORGES-ALMEIDA, 2009; QUEVEDO-CAMARGO, 2014; SCARAMUCCI, 2000), how English language teachers working in a language institute grade their students' oral performance, considering the adoption (or not) of previously established criteria. A qualitative-established criteria as, due to excessive subjectivity, oral tests do not seem to measure the students' expected level of oral performance, nor mirror language use reality.
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2017-12-19
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GARCIA, Lucas Henrique. Assessing speaking in English: grading as an expression of teachers’ subjectivity. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 20, n. 3, p. 93–117, 2017. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2017v20n3p93. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/25481. Acesso em: 23 jul. 2024.
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