Speaking Assessment General Concept of Speaking

4 Role-play Role-play is activities where students are asked to imagine that they are in the different situations and try to act become others character. Role play is very important in teaching speaking because it gives students an opportunity to practice communicating in different social. Sometimes teacher may want to join in speaking activities, but teacher needs to be concerned not to dominate the speaking activity. What the teacher should do is just supervising the speaking activities and aware of the problems that may come during speaking activities. Sometimes, students cannot think what they have to say and the conversation is suddenly over. The teacher could decide whether the activity should be stopped or continued and give some help for the students by providing some vocabulary.

2.2.6 Speaking Assessment

Speaking is an important part in language teaching, so that it also an important object of assessment. Brown 2004:210 states “How could such speaking be evaluated is to one representing one of several traits involve pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary use, grammar, comprehensibility”. For instant, assessing speaking is challenging because there are so many aspects that influence of how someone could speak a language well. The aspects involve pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary use, grammar, comprehensibility. According to Brown 2004:141, there are five basic types of speaking performance to design speaking assessment: 1 Imitative Speaking ; This types of speaking performance concern to the ability of imitating word, phrase or sentence. The main focus of this performance is pronunciation, lexical and grammatical properties. Examples of imitative speaking are phone pass test and word repetition task. 2 Intensive Speaking; Intensive speaking performance is the production of short stretches of oral language that design to demonstrate the competence in grammatical, phrasal, lexical, or phonological. Example of intensive assessment tasks are: reading aloud, sentence and dialogue completion, picture-cued task etc. 3 Responsive Speaking ; Responsive task assessment involve interaction in limited level. Examples of responsive speaking are very short conversation, standard greeting and small talks, simple request and comment. 4 Interactive Speaking ; Interactive speaking similar with responsive speaking. The difference between interactive and responsive is in the length and complexity of interaction. Examples of interactive speaking are interview, role-play, discussion, and games. 5 Extensive Speaking; Extensive speaking is usually called monologue. Extensive oral production tasks include speeches, oral presentation, and story retelling.

2.3 General Concept of Cooperative Learning

Today, in teaching learning process students are supposed to learn speaking in the second or foreign language by interacting with their surroundings. Cooperative language learning is very appropriate for this aim. Actually, the most notable name

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