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Assessment of LSRW Across The Curriculum

The document discusses the assessment of language skills, specifically Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing (LSRW), emphasizing their importance in education. It outlines methods for assessing each skill, including observational and structured approaches for speaking, comprehension tasks for reading, and various writing types. The overall goal of LSRW assessment is to provide a holistic view of student language proficiency and inform teaching strategies.

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Assessment of LSRW Across The Curriculum

The document discusses the assessment of language skills, specifically Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing (LSRW), emphasizing their importance in education. It outlines methods for assessing each skill, including observational and structured approaches for speaking, comprehension tasks for reading, and various writing types. The overall goal of LSRW assessment is to provide a holistic view of student language proficiency and inform teaching strategies.

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401 UNIT IV BULLET 4

ASSESSMENT OF LSRW ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

WHAT IS LANGUAGE?

All human beings communicate by means of language, and the use of language
in the basis of all human activities including education.

According to Otto Jespersen “Language is a set of human habits, the purpose of


which is to give expression to human thoughts and feelings especially to impart
them to others”

According to Wayne Weiten “A language consists of symbols that convey


meaning, plus rules for combining those symbols, that can be used to generate
an infinite variety of messages”

ASSESSMENT

Assessment is the systematic basis for making inferences about the learning and
development of students.

According to Allen (2004) “Assessment involves the use of empirical data on


student learning to refine programs and improve student learning.”

LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT

Language assessment is any process used to gather information about students


learning to improve or facilitate language learning.

LSRW Skills

Language is generally imparted and evaluated in terms of the four skills:


Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing or commonly referred to as LSRW
skills.

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Receptive Skills : Listening & Reading

Productive Skills: Speaking & Writing

ASSESSMENT OF LISTENING SKILLS

Listening is a receptive skill. In assessing this skill, students listen to passages


and answers multiple -choice question that addresses various levels of literal or
inferential comprehension.

Important elements in listening assessment are:

The listening stimuli: It should represent typical oral language i.e. the material
should model language students typically heard in real life.

The questions: the questions should focus on the most important aspects of the
passage and measure skills for particular domain.

Test environment: the testing environment should be free of external


distractions.

Assessment of listening skills evaluates the students ability to comprehend basic


instructions or academic materials

ASSESSMENT OF SPEAKING SKILL

There are two methods used for assessing speaking skills

i) Observational Approach: In this approach, the students behavior is


observed and assessed unobtrusively.
ii) Structured Approach: The student is asked to perform one/more
specific oral communication task and his performance evaluated.

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Both observational and structural approach uses variety of rating system:

i) Holistic rating: It captures a general impression of students performance


ii) Analytic rating: It captures the students performance on various aspects
of communication such as delivery, organization, content and language.

ASSESSMENT OF READING SKILLS

Methods used for assessing reading skills are:

i) Reading comprehension: Students are made to read a passage of text


and are asked detailed questions about the content of the text. The
questions may be direct or inferential.
ii) Cloze task: In this method, words are omitted from the passage and
students are asked to fill in the blanks with appropriate words.

Reading assessment provides feedback on various aspects of a students reading


abilities. It serves as a comprehensive process in understanding how well a
student reads and highlights areas for improvement

ASSESSMENT OF WRITING SKILLS

Brown (2004) classified writing types based in some general objectives :

i) Imitative: The ability of basic task like writing alphabet, words and very
short sentences.
ii) Intensive (controlled): Writing correct words in context and correct
grammatical features in sentence writing.
iii) Responsive: Strong emphasis on context and meaning. In this type,
writer is more concerned about discourse.
iv) Extensive: Writer focuses on achieving a purpose through organizing
ideas logically and employing varieties of syntactic and lexical forms.

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Two methods to assessing writing skills are:

i) Holistic: It involves the assignment of a single score to a piece of writing


as an overall impression.
ii) Analytic: It separates each aspect of writing to be scored and are summed
up.

Assessing writing skill is important in measuring students knowledge of the


elements of writing.

IMPORTANCE OF LSRW ASSESSMENT ACROSS CURRICULUM

- Assessing all four skills provides a holistic view of the students language
proficiency.
- Understanding the students strength and weakness helps educators to adjust
their teaching methods and materials based on assessment results.
- Assessing LSRW skills provides valuable feedback to both students and
teachers to identify areas for improvement and to track progress over periods
of time.

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