Assessing Young Learners’ Oral Skills Using Games and Drama Techniques

• 영문명: Assessing Young Learners’ Oral Skills Using Games and Drama Techniques
• 발행기관: 한국영어교육연구학회
• 저자명: Nam-joon Kang
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교육연구』제35호, 124~160쪽, 전체 37쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.10.30

영문 초록

This paper examined to use tasks that include game factors and drama techniques for assessing Korean primary school learners’ oral language skills. This paper discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using traditional types of oral assessment tools. The rationale and the purpose of conducting tests were discussed. The four principles that were pulled out from the theories of Brown & Yule and Swain were described. These principles were established hypothesizing that these may maximize testees’ performances in the test, provides them with an opportunity for learning the new language and having a meaningful interaction using the learned language. In this paper, one traditional type listening test and three oral tasks that were developed reflecting these principles were used. The nature of the three oral tasks are described and analysed in order to see how much these principles are reflected in the tasks and how much these influence the testees’ performance and attitudes toward the test. From this paper, the researcher found out that testees perform actively in the three oral tasks more than they did in the traditional test forgetting that they are being tested. In these three tasks, some testees who used to be very nervous and could not perform actively during the traditional type of tests, perform actively and perceive that they had fun during the test. The result of this paper maybe provides a prospectus for recruiting a different way of conducting oral tests in our primary EFL contexts. The researcher hopes to change both teachers’ and learners’ perspectives on tests from a serious and scary to a fun and an exciting thing to do in their English lessons.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Literature Review

III. Methodology

IV. Conclusion

Works Cited

키워드

Oral Assessment Substantive Integrative Motivating