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Unscrambling jumbled sentences: An authentic task for English language assessment?

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Lanteigne B.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

2017

vol. 7

issue 2

251-273

Jumbled sentence items in language assessment have been criticized by some authors as inauthentic. However, unscrambling jumbled sentences is a common occurrence in real-world communication in English as a lingua franca. Naturalistic inquiry identified 54 instances of jumbled sentence use in daily life in Dubai/Sharjah, where English is widely used as a lingua franca. Thus it is seen that jumbled sentence test items can reflect real-world language use. To evaluate scrambled sentence test items, eight test item types developed from one jumbled sentence instance (“Want taxi Dubai you?”) were analyzed in terms of interactivity and authenticity. Items ranged from being completely decontextualized, non-interactive, and inauthentic to being fully contextualized, interactive, and authentic. To determine appropriate assessment standards for English tests in schools in this region, the English language standards for schools and English language requirements for university admission in the UAE were analyzed. Schools in Dubai/Sharjah use Inner Circle English varieties of English (e.g., British or American English) as the standard for evaluation, as well as non-native-English-speaker varieties (e.g., Indian English(es)). Also, students applying to English-medium universities in the UAE must meet the required scores on standardized English tests including the IELTS and TOEFL. Standards for evaluation of communication in English involving tasks of jumbled sentences in classroom tests must reflect the language learning goals of the school and community. Thus standards for classroom assessment of English in Dubai/Sharjah are determined by local schools’ and universities’ policies.

РОЛЬ АВТЕНТИЧНИХ ВІДЕОТЕКСТІВ У ПРОЦЕСІ ФОРМУВАННЯ КОМУНІКАТИВНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНЦІЇ СТУДЕНТІВ-ІНОЗЕМЦІВ

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Тетяна Д., Ольга С.

Педагогічні науки: теорія, історія, інноваційні технології

2017

issue 5(69)

245-256

The article covers the usage of authentic videotexts at the initial stage of teaching Russian as foreign language. The authenticity problem has recently been in focus of the methodology of foreign languages teaching. Authentic videotexts are of the most interest. Texts of this type when based on a complex of tasks help study phonetical, lexical and grammatical material, and they also introduce the students to the authentic language samples andethnic and cultural peculiarities of the country which language they study. Authenticvideo materials(cartoonsinparticular)possessbiginformationvalueanddynamicsandtriggerinterestandmotivation for the foreign language studying.Video clips provide high information capacity of the material, visual content of the lesson, promote cognitive activities of the students, increase intensity and quality of studying, as well as give possibilities for the development of language, speech and sociocultural competence. Effectivenessofvideomaterialusageduringthelessonsofforeignlanguagesdependsnotonlyondefiningitsplaceintheeducationalsystembutalsoonthe rationality of the video lesson structure and coordination between the educational potential of the video film and the educational tasks. Cartoonshaveanumberofadvantages: theyareauthentic, informatively rich and contain high concentration of language means. This type of video helps present the language material in the real context, repeat and increase the vocabulary, enhance the communicative skills. Usageoftheauthenticvideomaterialsincreasesthestudents’activity, makesthelanguagestudyprocessemotionalandinteresting, develops speech skills and helps foreign students create the communicative competence. The cartoon not only helps to introduce the new linguistic units and widen the students’ lexicon, but also increases motivation for studying a foreign language. The results of the research can be used both by teachers and students during foreign language classes.The perspectives of further research can be seen in the deeper analysis of the video material usage when teaching Russian and Ukrainian as foreign languages.

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1 Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

1 Педагогічні науки: теорія, історія, інноваційні технології

1 Lanteigne B.

1 Ольга С.

1 Тетяна Д.

2 2017

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Unscrambling jumbled sentences: An authentic task for English language assessment?

РОЛЬ АВТЕНТИЧНИХ ВІДЕОТЕКСТІВ У ПРОЦЕСІ ФОРМУВАННЯ КОМУНІКАТИВНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНЦІЇ СТУДЕНТІВ-ІНОЗЕМЦІВ