UNIT 2

Informal assessment is one way in which us as future teachers can evaluate our students. How? Well we can take notes on their behavior, on which ones bring their homeworks, which ones participate or not and of course their attitude towards the subject and the teacher. We do evaluate them since the beginning of the class till the end of it, and throug all the period, semester or year, depending on the level. This is a very helpful tool for us and also for them because we can notice which students are doing good and bad in their assignments, also if they have problems in any topic, or how is doing the group, if all of them are doing the same at the same level. With this we can provide them with feedback whenever they want to. The good way about informal assessment is that we can do for the four skills, for their final portfolio, for presentations, or whatever we need to evaluate our student’s performance.
Linguistic factors Non-linguistic factors
• Speaking activities
• Pronunciation
• Fluency
• Self confidence
• Listening activities
• comprehension
• Listening for details in short dialogues
• Reading activities
• Fluency.
• Group reading
• Individual
• Silent reading
• Comprehension
• Writing activities
• Class activities
• Homework
• Brainstorming
• Fill up blanks
• Organize ideas
• Correct the facts
• Use of sentence structures (question form) • Attendance

• Punctuality

• Participation

• Respect



UNIT 1 Spending time

1.1 Identifying how people use time.
Learning objectives: Learners will ask questions in past tense using the different activities like filling the gaps, matching questions and answers, making up questions with the given words and finally practicing a short dialogue and sharing it in a respectful way.

1.2 Listen Exploring how people spend time on vacation.
Learning objectives: Learners will learn to ask for more information about people and their vacations, working in pairs, doing a reading followed up with a question making activity.

INFORMAL ASSESSMENT
We will be focused on the linguistic factors as speaking and listening because we considerer that these skills are the most important for the students in the acquisition of a second language.

1. Speaking: Students will be evaluated not only in their pronunciation but also in their relevance, accuracy and fluency, because it is important that they start to think in the second language so they will be able to say what they think without thinking it first in their native language.

2. Listening: Students will be evaluated on their comprehension in order to understand and respond some questions because this will prove that they are able to establish and comprehend a conversation, for example, or to face real situations in the second language.

These abilities are very important because what we do with language is to communicate with other so we need to learn to speak and listen in order to have a successful communication. So, if students notice that they are rewarding for participate in class they will want to take risk and speak in English during the class.

Secondly, we will be observing the non-linguistic factors such as attendance and general students’ attitudes like participation in class, respect and tolerance (to both students and teacher) and effort that will be part of their evaluation. This is because these are very important factors for the learner in the second language acquisition.

FORMAL ASSESSMENT

We would formally assess the following abilities based on the development of the students, in a written and oral form, and the skills to evaluate will be: speaking, listening, reading and writing.

We are giving the following test for each one of the skills.
1. Speaking: Students will be tested on answer to questions according with what has been seen.

2. Listening: Students will be evaluated with a question completing activity according to a dialogue.

3. Reading: Students will be given a questionnaire about a vacation reading that they will do and then, they will have to answer with related information.

4. Writing: Students will have to write down some questions related to activities that people do during a regular day.


Informal Assessment 30%
• Speaking 15
• Listening 15
Formal Assessment 70%
• Speaking 15
• Listening 15
• Reading 15
• Writing 15
• Homework 10


Activities and Instruments
Informal Assessment = 30%
a) Activities:

Listening:
• The students will answer related questions after listening to a day in the life recording conversation.
• The students write down the missing times after listening to a day in the life recording conversation.
• The students will complete questions after listening to a recorded interview about spare time and vacation time.
• The students will answer the questions they had completed in the last activity, listening again to the recorded interview.
10%

Speaking:
• The students will tell to a partner three things they did the day before.
• The student gives his/her opinion about the vacations interview.
• Then the student describes his/her last vacations.
10%

Evaluation
Criteria:
5- Very good listening comprehension, able to understand the conversations, and coherently speaking.
4 -Able to comprehend almost all conversations and speaks quiet coherently.
3 -Some difficulties in speaking and listening, maybe in one more than other, many errors in both, but student is able to decode and transmit the message.
2- Difficulty in one or both skills, student gets stuck at the moment of speaking and is almost incomprehensible, also cannot understand the messages in oral form.
1- Not able to use or comprehend the language.


Name Speaking (15%) Listening (15%) Final Grade Comments
Cárdenas Vega Edgar 5 4 27% He’s always trying to be better, just needs to focus more on getting on time
Plascencia Parra Raquel 4 4 24% One of the best students, very responsible
Torres Vélez Claudia 3 5 24% She needs to work on speaking, just little bit more practice.
Vizcarra Monarrez Marlene 2 1 9% She needs to work really hard on both skills, but she’s trying really hard