An Assessment of English Oral Performance of Diploma Students of Bahir - Dar Teachers ' College
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1990-05
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
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.
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Assessment of English