course for TESOL English language teaching students

course for TESOL English language teaching students

This study refers to some positive and negative effects of oral assessment applied to a literature course. The experiment was conducted in a north Cyprus university English language teaching (ELT) department, during the spring semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. The data were collected from the ELT students taking the Survey to English Literature course (SELC) during the spring semester of the 2016-2017 academic year, who were asked to fill in an open ended questionnaire about the intervention, and semi structured interviews conducted with the co-examiners. In the ELT department under discussion, almost all the exams are written, and the students do not have too many opportunities to speak during the courses or during their mid-term exam. The results show the benefits and drawbacks of implementing oral examinations to assess students’ literature knowledge. course for TESOL English language teaching students

Teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) students to teach EFL is a double folded endeavor. On the one hand it aims at improving students’ level of English; on the other hand it seeks to prepare them to use modern, appropriate methods and techniques to teach it. The syllabus used by the ELT department under discussion includes a SELC, which is taught for two semesters during the second year of studies. The assessment of the course had only been done through a written format before the implementation of this intervention. The present study followed the case study procedure. Twenty students and two co-examiners were the participants in the study. The students were exposed to an intervention for six weeks, which included an oral exam assessed by two co-examiners and the researcher. Further on, the students were asked to fill in an open-ended questionnaire in which their opinions were required. The co-examiners took part in a semi-structured interview about their opinions concerning the oral  exam. The data obtained was qualitatively interpreted and the results showed the effects of the intervention.

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This study is important for the improvement of assessing procedures followed by instructors in other ELT departments. Leaving aside the specificity of the course, which is about literature knowledge, the study brings into discussion the imperative need of pre-service students to improve their English language speaking skills. The study is significant because there is a lack of such studies in the literature. 

The present study describes the implementation of an oral assessment procedure applied to a SELC. It analyses the benefits and drawbacks of the procedure with a view of using it with ELT students in a private university in North Cyprus. In other words, the study is limited to this particular context and should not be generalized to a larger scale. Another limitation of the study refers to the data, which was collected only from an open ended questionnaire filled in by the students and a semi structured interview with the co-examiners. This is justified by the fact that in this article the researcher only dealt with some aspects of a case study as part of an action research  

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