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Assessement is the process of monitoring progress during and after instruction. Namely, because is an essential component in the teaching and learning process. In addition, assessment should focus on students performance rather than on their language.

When it comes to assessing, the Traditional Assessment is related to traditionald methods that often teachers were not satisfied with the results obtained.

Nowadays, this methods has been changed and called for scrolling from Traditional Assessment to Alternative Assessment methods. Besides that, the Traditional Assessment present some limitation to achieving students concentrations and measure their performance.

On the other hand, Alternative Assessment is a modern and improved strategies that is used to ask students how much they have learned and what they are able to do. Moreover, Alternative Assessment measure students ability, performance, learning to use English in real-life situations. Also, offer a comprehension and accurate figure of expansion of the competences in students through what they have already learnt. In addition, provides insight of the strenghts and weaknesses of each student.

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Each of the types of Alternative Assessment methods for teaching English mentioned below has its own way of evaluating. That is why, they are elaborated by teachers emphasizing areas that need improvement; such as: Performance-based tasks, Portfolios, journals, diaries and projects.

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From my point of view, I consider that the Alternative Assessment is a measure way the student´s performance. There are different forms to knows the learning level that pupils have. One of the adventages of Alternative Assessments is that it has the certainty that students develop more than one intelligence.

In addition, the theory of multiple intellingences of Howard Garden began evolving the educational systems. Thus, callenging the old evaluation paterns. The best practice in Alternative Assessment that contains many kinds of learning that evidence-based knowledgem or skills of aplication such as: Problem solving, writing conceptualizing, collaboration, creativity and reflection.

Almost always, this way of an assigment or a test, to be valid it should measure the skills or knowledge that teacher have planned for the students to learn.

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                                   STUDENT PORTFOLIOS

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              TYPES ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT

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              TYPES ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT

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This Assessment is the most commun in the real-life, specially because, helps student construct their own knowledge. Also, is a opportunity for student to provide documentation of their learning activity and forces the students to formulate his own opinion and analysis. On the other hand, is a support the teacher evaluate so that he can measure what the student has actually produced, what pupils really learned and what the work was really worth.
Portfolio could be online or phisical books, and it could cover a determined time and topics. Furthemore, its can add samples, photos of students to do creative work. Some benefits of used portfolios as Alternative Assessment are:
1.  Have a supplement or Alternative to report cards and standardized tests.
2.  Base assessment on a more AUTHENTIC work.

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     ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT : AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDING 

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     ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT : AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDING 

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This  evaluation methods helps students become self-confident, gain fluency. When it comes to English class, the teacher evaluates several categories of learning such as speaking, pronuncation, and intonation. On top of that, the students prepares his speech in a clear and precise way, with a strong analysis from his own understanding and acquired knowledge.

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Is an experience full of knowledge for the learner will be projects performed helping to other ones or receiving help from another.
Windham (2007) refers to the critical thinking of working in a grup is a win-win cycle. She mentions that work grups motivates the capability of reflection in students.

Clearly, this type of Alternative Assessment would present some landicaps that must be solved between the teacher and the students.

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Encouraging students should be a priory in this types of assessment work from the way they choose for their writings since may takes several forms. Such as, Life-writing journals, a think-book, an anything goes journal or a cooperative teaching-students log.
For Barlow, a Journaling deepens the student´s understanding or comprehension until it reaches making connections with the content they have studied. Thus, responding to everything learnt from he assigned material.
The Teacher get to know they students better.Mainly becayse, the teacher understand their students´thinking better, to communicate with studens through writing, and to reevaluate their instruction based on students responses in the learning.
EncourageJournal Writing to be spontaneous creatives and enables to add images, illustrations and photographs to their journals.

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        KWL CHART ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT

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        KWL CHART ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT

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Source consulted
B. Barlow, “Bouts writing skills with everyday journaling”, Instructor, 111 (2001)44
M.E. McIntosh and R.J. Draper, “Using learning logs in Mathematics: Writing to learn Mathematics Teacher, 94 (2001)555-557
Windham, C. (2007) why today´s students value learning obtained from https://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EL13017.pdf
https://campus.ues.edu.sv/pluginfile.php/6169791/mod_resource/content/7/Material%20de%20lectura%20Unidad%202.pdf
https://campus.ues.edu.sv/pluginfile.php/6169423/mod_resource/content/6/Traditional%20vs.%20Alternative%20Assessment.pdf
https://campus.ues.edu.sv/pluginfile.php/6169420/mod_resource/content/4/3.%20Best%20practices%20in%20Alternative%20Assessment.pdf

YouTube videos consulted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ9L9f7OpS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MovBgZ0w1Rk