Teaching Assessment to Develop Esp Students’ Speaking Skills

Abstract

The demand for changing the conceptions of teaching and learning has brought peer-and self-assessment into the classroom. This paper presents the challenges teachers have to face while preparing the assessment process for the ESP classroom, with a special emphasis on developing ESP students' speaking skills. It is of primary importance that teachers know how to prepare the assessment criteria, how to instruct students on this topic and provide them with adequate feedback while avoiding possible barriers and misunderstandings along the process. The paper further demonstrates how students become active participants in the learning process and are asked to contribute in providing assessment criteria and feedback. While learning speaking skills, students also learn how to assess themselves and others. That enables them to raise awareness of the most common problems and mistakes they encounter when developing their communication skills and increases the overall level of their language ability and performance. As a result, teachers might dedicate more time to other useful classroom activities.

Exploring Self-Assessment of Speaking Skill by EFL High School Students

“…Furthermore, oral speaking skills in the professional and academic environment and at the interpersonal level are helpful. Presenting a better presentation will increase students' confidence, boost their potential study choices, and help them communicate with others whatever they have learned (Ličen & Bogdanović, 2018).…”

“…It means that the teachers' duty is not only to teach but also to assess. However, obtaining an assessment is necessary for teaching and learning to improve students' speech abilities (Ličen & Bogdanović, 2018).…”

“…The teacher should teach critical thinking skills appropriate for the practice of self-assessment (Ličen & Bogdanović, 2018). They should involve students in assessment-focused discussions or exercises.…”

“…Self-regulation is an excellent ability to get advantages from the instructional input they receive. Ličen & Bogdanović (2018) stated that students who use self-assessment are better than their peers because they learn to assess themselves and gain more teacher feedback.…”

“…Self-assessment is a method for assessing students' activity to classify the field they have learned (Ličen & Bogdanović, 2018). For example, after students complete an assignment, they may assess the factor they have failed to perform.…”