[etni] Oral Exams on Projects
- From: James Backer <drjamesbacker@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 06:02:54 -0700 (PDT)
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Greetings, all!
I think that Nina makes some very good points, but it
is the dialogue (i.e., role play) that should be
re-instated, rather than a "monologue".
With all the pressure to complete projects,
literature, external reading, etc., it is a pretty
good bet that teachers will stop "wasting their time"
on question formation. Why should they spend the
needed time on this extremely complicated grammatical
task if the kids are never going to be tested on it?
Role plays, done correctly, facilitate in-class use of
English as well as dealing with an extremely important
function of language. If the Bagrut tester allows a
real role-play dialogue to develop, then we have very
good instrument to judge the students' English. (And
yes, I am accusing some of the testers of mis-using
this part of the old exam.)
Jimmy
Nina wrote:
I think that it is grossly unfair that a student who
doesn't do the
project should be penalised TWICE. The oral test is
to test oral
skills, therefore the currect system is totally
unfair. Wouldn't it be
better to return to the old system of monologues?
I also agree with many teachers who have written to
complain that the
questions on the modules seem to confuse good, English
speaking
students. I would prefer more challenging texts with
straightforward questions
that test comprehension.
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