Evaluations, tests and assessing

Evaluations, tests and assessing

As students of a second language we have to certificate our knowledge by taking determinate exams which say what level of English we have. Therefore The CEF (Common European framework of reference for languages) has designed standards which are useful from different skills:

• ·         Speaking (use of English, fluency, vocabulary and so on)
• ·         Listening (Solve different activities about dialogues, experiences, songs)
• ·         Writing (Like essays witch demonstrate subjective point of view or objective texts)
• ·         Reading (Identify specific information and solve problems)

Taken from http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/source/framework_en.pdf

Presenting a test could be an awkward situation; you always get nervous and you just start to hesitate about everything you know. When I was starting my college studies my worse horrible nightmare was speaking English in public. For that reasons our teacher wanted us for making debates and also to asses speaking by using FCE (one of the most recognized exams from Cambridge University). The exam was simple, by pairs we had to describe a picture and make some questions each other about that, meanwhile the teacher was evaluating us with a scoring rubric (which had different items like vocabulary, idioms, use of grammar, pronunciation) .

So we have to take into account that exams like FCE are demanding for our academically and general knowledge as future teachers. As well getting nervous is normal, but it is just at the beginning of your experiences as student and teacher.