This is a presentation Sonia, Pilar and Patricia made for the subject "ASSESSMENT" in the Master "LEARNING AND TEACHINDA OF SECOND LANGUAGES"

1. TEST FOR YOUNG LEARNERS
M1617-SecondLanguageLearningandTeaching
Authors:PatriciaRíos,PilarSainzandSoniaIriondo

2. Ensure that the teaching
programme is effective
Need for a common criterion
Make comparisons between
assessment and testing

3. Testing
Assesment
Teaching programme
Inmediate feedback
Increasing value itself
Always positive!
Self assessment

4. Conventions easy to understand
Brief and varied: two or more test
Reliability & Validity
Attractive for children..they love stories and play!
Handle in their own language
Promotes interaction
Be familiar with teacher and environment

5. RECOMMENDED TECHNIQUES
TO TEST DIFFERENT SKILLS
LISTENING
READING WRITING SPEAKING

6.  To place objects in a picture.
Example on the net: http://wikisaber.es/Contenidos/LObjects/Macmillan_bb1_actJ/index.html
 Multiple choice pictures.
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7258
 To colour and to draw on existing line drawing.
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/paint-it/pets
 Information transfer (also involves simple reading and writing).

7.  Multiple choice.
 Gap filling with pictures
BETTER WITH
PICTURES!!

8.  Anagram with picture: to test
vocabulary and spelling.
 Cartoon story: look at the
cartoons and tell a simple story.
 Gap filling with pictures
(reading and writing).

9.  Asking straightforward questions about the child and their family.
 Giving the child a card with a scene on it and asking them about it.
 Giving the child two very similar pictures but which differ in
obvious ways and the child is asked to say what the differences are.
 The child must tell a story through some pictures.
 Sets of pictures are presented
and the child is asked to identify the odd one.
Warming
up

10.  In pairs, a child can describe a classmate and the other one has to guess who is being described.
 There are four different postcards and everyone is given three of them. They have to discover
which cards they have in common by asking and answering questions.
 There are two pictures which are different but which contain a number of objects that are
identical. The child who has picture A has to describe an object in their picture and the child who
has picture B has to say whether it is to be found in their picture.
 Children have some cards with incomplete information. They have to ask questions to end up with
all the information.

11. ANY QUESTION??
THANKYOU!!!