How do you rate the different aspects of speaking, for example fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation? Do you assess other speaking skills such as conversation strategies?

Reflect on your own experience assessing speaking with your students. Use these questions to write a journal entry.

• How do you rate the different aspects of speaking, for example fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation?

• Do you assess other speaking skills such as conversation strategies?

• What assessment tasks do you use with your students and what information do you gain from these assessment tasks?

• Are there any problems you encounter with these assessment tasks? If so, what would you like to change?