Assessing Speaking

Designing Assesment Tasks in Speaking Skill
1.    Imitative Speaking
Phonological imitation in a consideration of assessment is include in oral production.  After that, endless repeating of words, phrases, and sentence was the province of the long-since-discarded audiolingual method. Ponepass is the most popular test used in imitative, the test has supported the construct validity of its repetition task not just for a test taker’s phonologically ability but also for discourse and overall oral production ability. The test contains of computer assisted over a telephone, test taker read aloud, repeat sentences, say words, and answer question.
2.    Intensive Speaking
In this level, the test takers are prompted to produce short streches of discourse. There are five kinds of tests in this level, first is Directed response task. In this task, the test administrator elicits a particular grammatical form or transformation of sentence. Second is Read aloud task. The technique is easily administered by selecting a pessage that incorporates test specs and by recording the test taker’s output. The third is Sentence Dialogue completion tasks and oral quetionnaire. The test taker are given time to read dialogue then as the the administrator, teacher produce one part orally. Next is Picture Cued tasks, picture cued stimulus used in this test. Picture maybe simple, designed to elicits a word or phrase. The last is Translation. It is the teaching certainly passe in an era of direct approaches to creating communicativeclassrooms.
3.    Responsive Speaking
There are four kinds of test in this level, they are: Quastion and answer, Giving instruction and Direction, Paraphrasing, and Test of Spoken English. Question and answer can consist of one or two question from in interviewer. Questions at the responsive level tend to be genuine referential question. The second way is Giving instruction and direction. The technique is the administrator poses the problem, and the test-takers responds. Scoring is based primaryly on comprehensibility and secondarily on other specified grammatical or discourse categories. Next way is Paraphrasing, read or hear a limited number of sentence. The last way is Test of Spoken English(TSE), it is a 20 minutes audiotaped test of oral language ability within an academic or professional environment.
4.    Interactive Speaking
It includes tasks that involve relatively long straches of interactive discourse (interview, role plays, disscussion, and games), and task of equaaly long duration but that involve less interaction. Interview can be around five to fourty five minutes. Every effective interview contains a number of mandatory stages: warm up, level check, Probe, wind-down. Role playing is a popular pedagogical activity in communcative language teaching classes. Role play opens some windows or opportunity for test-takers to use discourse that might otherwise be difficult to elicit.
As informal technique to assess learners, discussion and conversation offer a level of authentucity and sponthenticity that other assessment techniques may not provide. As assessment, the key of Game is to specify aset of criteria and reasonably practical and reliable scoring method. Oral proficiency interview is the best known oral interview format is one of  that has gone through a considerable metamorphosis over the last half-century.
5.    Extensive Speaking
The first way is Oral presentation. In this way, a checklist or grid is a common means of scoring or evaluation. The next is Retelling story. Test-takers hear or read a story or news event that they are asked to repeat. Next type is translation, the advantage of translation is in the control of the content, vocabulary, and some extent, the grammatical and discourse features.