CHANGING THE NATURE OF SPEAKING ASSESMENT
Changing the Nature of Speaking Assesment

Summary/Abstract: The question whether the task of assessing speaking as a separate skill within the scope of language-related courses at English departments is done holistically has rarely been raised in the region. There is a kind of feeling that just by testing what has usually been known as fluency, accuracy, discourse management, or certain lexical and grammatical structures, we are able to give some kind of judgement about the performance itself. By ignoring in practice the necessity of continuous assessment and relying on applying the “one test – one mark” principle, sometimes there is very little attention paid to the personality factors of the examinees. This paper is an illustration of a small project of trying to approach the assessment (and testing) of speaking at universities from another angle – as a collaborative effort of teaching assistants.

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