Subject Area
Foreign Language Pedagogy
Abstract
Accurately assessing student performance helps instructors develop more effective classroom materials to increase proficiency in the target language. In order to facilitate this process in my classroom, I have developed rubrics for Speaking and Listening that are based on ACTFL guidelines, and that can be easily modified to suit the specific needs of any language at all levels from Novice through Distinguished. Thus, these rubrics can be very useful not only for the individual instructor, but also for language departments that wish to use a common rubric for assessing student performance.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to use the guidelines to write their own target-language specific rubrics and use them to accurately and confidently assess their students’ proficiency levels in Speaking and Listening at any level on the ACTFL scale. I have used these rubrics with my own students who ranged from true beginners to native speakers for the past 3 semesters, and have found them to work very well. Several of my colleagues in the Department of Foreign Languages have also responded favorably to these rubrics. If this proposal is accepted, I hope the session participants will find them equally useful.
Brief Bio Note
Dr. Catherine Johnson is an associate professor in German at Georgia Southern University. Her research interests include second language acquisition, assessing student performance, issues of race, ethnicity and nationality in German-speaking countries, and POGIL (Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning).
Keywords
ACTFL, Rubrics, Inter-rater Reliability, Assessment, Proficiency
Location
Room 217
Presentation Year
2015
Start Date
3-26-2015 3:00 PM
End Date
3-26-2015 4:15 PM
Embargo
2015
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Catherine T., "Rubrics for Easily and Accurately Assessing Speaking and Listening Proficiency from Novice through Distinguished" (2015). South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL). 89.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/seccll/2015/2015/89
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Rubrics for Easily and Accurately Assessing Speaking and Listening Proficiency from Novice through Distinguished
Room 217
Accurately assessing student performance helps instructors develop more effective classroom materials to increase proficiency in the target language. In order to facilitate this process in my classroom, I have developed rubrics for Speaking and Listening that are based on ACTFL guidelines, and that can be easily modified to suit the specific needs of any language at all levels from Novice through Distinguished. Thus, these rubrics can be very useful not only for the individual instructor, but also for language departments that wish to use a common rubric for assessing student performance.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to use the guidelines to write their own target-language specific rubrics and use them to accurately and confidently assess their students’ proficiency levels in Speaking and Listening at any level on the ACTFL scale. I have used these rubrics with my own students who ranged from true beginners to native speakers for the past 3 semesters, and have found them to work very well. Several of my colleagues in the Department of Foreign Languages have also responded favorably to these rubrics. If this proposal is accepted, I hope the session participants will find them equally useful.
