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    An Assessment of English Oral Performance of Diploma Students of Bahir - Dar Teachers ' College
    (Addis Ababa University, 1990-05) G/Medhin, Taddese; Gamta, Tilahun (PhD)
    This study was conducted t o assess English oral performanc e of Bahir - Dar Teachers ' College students. To do so, twenty - .e lt ght s tudents (out of 100) were s ystema tically se l ected from the depa rtment of Physics, Mathematics a nd Chemistry. To assess the stu1ents' oral performance, two communioative tasks (picture' . ased story - telling and picture description) were prepared. General orientation was first given to the stu_cen'os in orLler to get them f amiliarized with the t es t conditions. Moreover, model oral production exercises were given to them. The ora l production t es t s wer e given to the students on two different days . Their oral performances were then tape - r ecorded and transcrib ed · As the aim of the s~udy was to assess the students' communicative performance, r equired ~ informat i on bits of the two test - tasks were identified and listed. The s tudents ' per fo rmanc e was determined in t erms of the positive number of points of r equired - information - bits encoded. The study showed tha t the stUdents ' communica tive performance Was below the minimum exp ec t ed aver age (50%). On the basis of this finding, it was r ecommended that t,h e s tudents nGod int ens iv e or al pro duction exe rci ses. Moreover. it was r ecommended tha t stUdents ' oral performanc e should be assessed at di ·ff.er ent intervals in order to check the s tudents' weaknesses and s treng.tbes so that tea chers could devise ways and means to up gra de the students~ctTanicative performance.