{"id":334,"date":"2010-12-19T18:12:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/?p=334"},"modified":"2011-08-23T12:46:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T10:46:57","slug":"lingva-workshops-11-12-speaking-assessment-standardisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/lingva-workshops-11-12-speaking-assessment-standardisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lingva Workshops 11 &#038; 12: Speaking Assessment Standardisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_336\" style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_2584.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-336\" class=\"size-large wp-image-336  \" title=\"IMG_2584\" src=\"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_2584-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_2584-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_2584-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_2584.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">  Lingva Workshop Dec 2010                                       - From left to right:  Mirjana Ljiljak-Vukajlovic, Katarina Andric, Marija Matic and Lora Petronic-Petrovic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the most elusive areas in language teaching is objective assessment of  speaking and writing skills. Not only can it become a nightmare for young  teachers without experience but it can also make more experienced teachers ask  themselves whether their criteria have always been comprehensive and fair  enough. In view of this, any additional practice and experience sharing in the  field of testing and assessment is more than welcome, and support from national  and international organisations for promotion of language quality services in  providing assessment benchmarks is indispensable.<\/p>\n<p>For that purpose,  Lingva has organised two in-house workshops aimed at CEFR-based speaking  assessment standardisation training, as recommended by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yals.rs\/\">YALS Association of  Language Schools of Serbia<\/a> and on the basis of instructions provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaquals.org\/\">EAQUALS<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaquals.org\/read\/online.asp?d=3171\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the first workshop held on 15 October 2010,  the main emphasis was placed on familiarising teachers with CEFR speaking  overviews and descriptors.<br \/>\nIn the second workshop on 14 December 2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/T\/DG4\/Portfolio\/?L=E&amp;M=\/main_pages\/illustrationse.html\">filmed  samples of CEFR-calibrated oral production<\/a> were used as benchmarks and teachers were asked  to rate both spoken production and interaction performance of selected students,  first individually, than in groups.<\/p>\n<p>The main objective of both  workshops was to further develop a common interpetation of the CEFR levels by  Lingva teachers, at both an individual and collective level, and at the same  time help them achieve consistency in their continuous assessment of students\u2019  competence in English. The next workshop to be held in spring 2011 will deal  with writing assessment standardisation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_2585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-337\" title=\"IMG_2585\" src=\"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_2585-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most elusive areas in language teaching is objective assessment of speaking and writing skills. Not only can it become a nightmare for young teachers without experience but it can also make more experienced teachers ask themselves whether their criteria have always been comprehensive and fair enough. In view of this, any additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,11],"tags":[14,15,19,25,18,16],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lingva-english-cafe","category-teacher-tools","category-teacher-training-development","tag-elt","tag-english","tag-eslefl","tag-lingva-valjevo","tag-ttd","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}