Using a Videocamera and Task-Based Activities to Make Classroom Oral Testing a More Realistic Communicative Experience.

Haggstrom, Margaret

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ERIC Number: EJ514917

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Publication Date: 1994

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Using a Videocamera and Task-Based Activities to Make Classroom Oral Testing a More Realistic Communicative Experience.

Haggstrom, Margaret

Foreign Language Annals, v27 n2 p161-75 Sum 1994

Provides an overview of the most widely used methods of classroom oral testing, as well as evaluations of their practicality and conformity to the goals of communicative teaching and testing. Also described are ways the video camera and task-based activities have successfully been used to make oral testing a more realistic communicative experience. (JL)

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Interviews, Language Laboratories, Language Tests, Oral Language, Role Playing, Second Language Learning, Testing, Videotape Recordings

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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