I gave an OWL demo today in my applied linguistics class - that was great. It
was fun to see a group of graduate students laughing - that is what all
classrooms should theoretically look like.
I borrowed a few things here & there, including Ricardo’s writing samples and
rubrics to show the latest in OWL tech. Thanks!
Nanosh
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Email: nanoshlucas@xxxxxxxxx
If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come
because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.
-- Lilla Watson
On Dec 10, 2015, at 10:10 PM, Ricardo Linnell <hurricanetumbao@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
You are welcome, Maria
On Thursday, December 10, 2015, Maria Maguire <maria.gmag@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:maria.gmag@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
THanks so much for sharing this rubric. So helpful to have another tool to
use in rating samples.
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Ricardo Linnell <hurricanetumbao@xxxxxxxxx
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','hurricanetumbao@xxxxxxxxx');>> wrote:
Hello All!
Wow! ACTFL was amazing in many ways, but there was one way in particular that
really spoke to me. After the convention, I have continued to stay in contact
with the instructor from my pre-convention workshop. I sent her a couple of
pieces of work and asked her what she thought. One was an end of 2nd year
sample and one was an end of 1st year sample. The feedback that she gave me
was awesome in a few ways:
1. I realized just how much QUANTITY is necessary in the ratability of a
sample. There must be enough Qn in order to see if the sample fits the
criteria.
2. My standard of QL was off. I fell back into the "student must conjugate
perfectly" mindset, since no one was answering my question about "how much is
just enough." After speaking to the instructor, I have swung back to
"comprehensibility matters most." Now the question I have is, "what is
comprehensibility, in looking at samples?"
3. I was happy because the end of 2nd year sample that I sent to the
instructor, she said she thought it was at the IM level. I thought so too,
but it just helped to validate the importance of having 100% TL for more than
one year in a row.
....which brings me to this....
I have a rubric to share with you guys. Use it and change it up if you must,
but know that it is designed to hone in on conceptual, partial and full
control of criteria for each sublevel. So far all I have is NM. I plan to
create one for each sublevel all the way up to at least IM. I hope this can
help those of you who may be having the same questions that I have had (some
of which I still have) on leveling samples. Enjoy!
Ricardo
--
Maria Maguire
