Student-led

Oral Proficiency Interview

Jessica LaFern Bryanjessicabryan@byu.edu

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Oral Assessments

1. What are some ways you assess your students orally?

2. How often do you assess your students’ oral abilities?

3. What type of feedback do students receive?

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4. Why do we assess student speech?

Student-led

Oral Proficiency Interview

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Teachers will be able to take the ideas presented and apply them in their oral assessments of their students.

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THE PLAN1. Introduction2.Problems3.Purpose4.Student-led oral proficiency interviews5.How to!6.Q & A

Introduction

O.P.I.Oral Proficiency Interview

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Ask - Answerwords - sentences - paragraphs - discourse

Problems

What do you think some of the problems are?

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time with each individual student

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Purposeof student-led oral proficiency interviews

Students know what to expect

Students and teachers know what is being learned

STUDENT-LED OPIs

What is it?

Student-Led OPIs★ Students interview each other using

questions the teacher provided and rate each other using a rubric the teacher provided.

German 101 example

1. Hallo , wie geht’s dir?

2. Wie heißt du?

a. Woher kommt dein Name?

3. Hast du Geschwister?

a. Erzähle mir mehr über deine Familie.

4. Woher kommst du?

a. Wie ist das Wetter woher du kommst?

b. Erzähle mir über deine Heimat!

c. Würdest du gern in Deutschland wohnen?

d. Wenn du wohnen könntest, wo auch immer du wolltest, wo wärst du?

5. Was sind deine Hobbys?

a. Wann hast du diese Hobbys angefangen?

b. Hast du Pläne für die Zukunft mit deinen Hobbys?

German 101 example - translated

1. Hi, how are you?

2. What is your name?

a. Where does your name come from?

3. Do you have siblings?

a. Tell me about your family.

4. Where are you from?

a. How is the weather where you are from?

b. Tell me about your homeland!

c. Would you like to live in Germany?

d. If you could live where ever you could, where would you live?

5. What are your hobbies?

a. When did you start your hobbies?

b. Do you have plans for the future with your hobbies?

STUDENT-LED OPIs

in 5 simple steps

1.Pick a topic

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2. Create Questions

3.Organize the questions

simplest most difficult

4. Student Interview each other

German 101 example

1. Hallo , wie geht’s dir?

2. Wie heißt du?

a. Woher kommt dein Name?

3. Hast du Geschwister?

a. Erzähle mir mehr über deine Familie.

4. Woher kommst du?

a. Wie ist das Wetter woher du kommst?

b. Erzähle mir über deine Heimat!

c. Würdest du gern in Deutschland wohnen?

d. Wenn du wohnen könntest, wo auch immer du wolltest, wo wärst du?

5. Was sind deine Hobbys?

a. Wann hast du diese Hobbys angefangen?

b. Hast du Pläne für die Zukunft mit deinen Hobbys?

“Students [are] able to make judgments of their peers' oral presentations comparable to those made by the teacher.”

Patri (2002)

5. Feedback using a Rubric

Consistent with the ACTFL guidelines

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How to...1.Pick a topic2.Create questions3.Organize the questions4.Students interview each other5.Students give each other feedback

using a rubric

Have a try...

Topic:______________________

Basic Question:________________

More in depth question:__________

Even more difficult question:_______

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Q&A

Danke!jessicabryan@byu.edu