Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI)

Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI)

Assessment item

The assessment task designed for lesson four is aimed at verifying students ability to exchange personal information related to name, age, nationality, jobs and marital students. Students are asked to perform a role paly in a hypothetical situation. One student will take the role of a receptionist in a gym and the other will be the student himself. Then, they exchange roles. The ‘receptionist’ receives a form to fill in with the information he/she has to ask the other student. Teacher evaluates students performance based on the criteria below.

Role play

Name: ............................................................................
Age: ............. Nationality: ...........................................
Single___ Married ___
Job: .........................................
Score:
Interactive communication:

1- interaction is poor, silence is frequent
2- interaction is hindered by inadequate use of grammar/ vocabulary
3- appropriate accomplishment of the task

Grammar:

1- errors are frequent and hinder communication
2- control of grammar is good and mistakes do not hinder communication
3- errors are rare

Vocabulary:

1- use of inadequate vocabulary to the situation
2- correct use of vocabulary despite few errors
3- able to perform the task and correct use of vocabulary

Pronunciation:

1- errors are frequent and hinder communication
2- errors occur but do not interfere with communication
3- errors rarely occur


source: http://www.letras.ufmg.br/arado/freebooks/english/speak3.htm

Test of Spoken English

Test of Spoken English
Categories
1.Give an opinion.

2. Describe something physical.

3. Define

Specific tasks

1.Give an opinion about animals in the zoo.
2. Giving a personal description.
3. Defining a technical term.

Interactive Speaking

- Interpersonal tasks;
- Most of the time, tasks have long duration;
- Interview; Role Play; Discussions and Conversations; Games.

Interview: “ A test administrator and a test-taker sit down in a direct face-to-face exchange and proceed through a protocol of questions and directives”.
• Stages of an interview (Michael Canale; 1984):
1. Warm-up
2. Level check
3. Probe
4. Wind- down

Role Play: “While role play can be controlled or ‘guided’ by the interviewer, this technique takes test-takers beyond simple intensive and responsive levels to a level of creativity and complexity that approaches real-world pragmatics.”
Discussions and Conversations: “As formal assessment devices, discussions and conversations with and among students are difficult to specify and even more difficult to score. But as informal techniques to assess learners, they offer a level of authenticity and spontaneity that other assessment techniques may not provide.”

source: http://www.letras.ufmg.br/arado/freebooks/english/speak2.htm

RESPONSIVE SPEAKING

RESPONSIVE SPEAKING
Question and Answer
- Display questions: simple question=> “What is this called in English?

- Referential questions: complex question => “What are the steps governments should take, if any, to stem the rate of deforestation in tropical countries?”

Questions eliciting
open-ended responses
- What do you think about the weather today?
- What do you like about the English language?
- Why did you choose your academic major?


Elicitation of questions from the test-taker

- Do you have any questions for me?
- Ask me about my family or job or interests.
- If you could interview the president or prime minister of your country, what would you ask that person?
(Test-takers respond with questions)

Giving Instructions and Directions

- How do you access email on a PC computer?
- How do you program telephone numbers into a cell (mobile) phone?
- How do I get from ______ to ______ in your city?

(Test-takers respond with appropriate instructions/direction).
Paraphrasing (a phone message)

Please tell Jeff that I’m tied up in traffic so I am going to be about half hour late for the nine o’clock meeting. And ask him to bring up our question about the employee benefits plan. If he wants to check in with me on my cell, have him call 415-338-3095. Thanks.

(test-takers response with two three sentences)

source: http://www.letras.ufmg.br/arado/freebooks/english/speak1.htm

Attempting and Denying Fact

when we face out about some kind of fact in our life, we will face it into two kinds of expression, the first is attempting fact and denying fact.

what is attempting fact? yes we must do realize that something happen is based on the truth and it happened. we realize that and give such kind of agreement. below are such kind of attempting fact expression;

"It is true that.... "
"yes i do that...... "
"of course it happened....."

however, when the fact is not appropriate we can deny it. when it can not be trusted and there is not any kinds of evidences. below are the expression of denying fact:

"it is not true...."
no, it never happen..."
no, i do not do that...."


but actually in daily conversation we always do another kinds of expression to attempting or denying fact. of course we must see the condition and who are our addressee.


sources: compulated from many resources.