ERIC Number: ED606533
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Publication Date: 2020-Jul-13
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Raising Awareness on Assessment Criteria through Peer-Assessment and Self-Reflection in the Spanish Oral Class
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In language courses, oral skills are frequently a source of anxiety for students. Moreover, in some occasions, students are unfamiliar with the evaluation criteria used to assess their performances, increasing their level of stress when facing the oral exam. This article describes a series of activities based on the introduction of several formative and summative self- and peer-assessment activities in a Year 2 Spanish module, aimed at students in the Modern Languages Programme at the University of Nottingham. Students have varied profiles and learning styles, as their programmes include Modern Languages and some variations of Joint Honours programmes with languages. The activities aimed to give students some extra tools to allow them to better monitor their oral performance, potentially easing their concern on the linguistic elements which would be assessed and letting them autonomously identify their own strengths and the areas where they might need improvement. [For the complete volume, "Five Years of ELEUK Conferences: A Selection of Short Papers from 2019," see ED606532.]
Descriptors: Oral Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Peer Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Language Tests, Stress Variables, Modern Languages, College Second Language Programs, Honors Curriculum, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Profiles, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Summative Evaluation
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Nottingham)
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