Assessing Novice Language Teachers' Oral Communication: Rubric Development by Betsy Gilliland https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster Authors: Betsy Gilliland, Dustin Crowther, & Cari Ryan (University of Hawaʻi Mānoa) Resilient teachers need to know how to effectively present information to their future students. This poster describes a project to develop an oral communication rubric for undergraduate language teacher education courses. Join us for a discussion of teaching and assessing teachers’ oral communication online. en-us 2020-09-17 20:59:51 UTC 2025-12-10 11:40:03 UTC hello@padlet.com Course Description: SLS 313: Techniques in Second Language Teaching: Listening and Speaking egillila https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/757061653 This course provides an overview of the theoretical and practical issues involved in the teaching of second or foreign language (L2) listening and speaking. The theoretical and empirical perspectives are integrated with practical experiences including classroom observation, teaching practices as well as material development and analysis.]]> 2020-09-17 21:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/757061653 Future Plans egillila https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/757063000
  • Rubric will be piloted in SLS 313 during Fall 2020 semester. After the first microteaching in October, the team will talk with the graduate student course instructor and plan revisions. 
  • Second microteaching in SLS 313 is scheduled for November. 
  • SLS 312 will be taught by Betsy Gilliland in Spring 2021, with opportunity for further refining the rubric.
    • ]]>     2020-09-17 21:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/757063000     Workshop 1: Defining Language Teacher Oral Communication egillila https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/757063826
  • 17 participants
  • 3 hours via Zoom
    • Faculty and students discussed what language teachers should be able to do (in terms of Oral Communication). Also, how the SLS course assignments allow students to develop Oral Communication skills and what mastery of the skills looks like. Workshop guiding questions included: 
    • What are the situations in which language teachers will be required to orally communicate information in the classroom?
    • What information are language teachers likely to communicate in the classroom? Discuss in reference to both content delivery and classroom management.
    • What difficulties might language teachers face while orally addressing the information identified in question 2?
    ]]>     2020-09-17 21:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/757063826     Workshop 2: Identifying Rubric Categories and Scope egillila https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/757064496
  • 14 participants
  • 3 hours using Zoom
    • Faculty and students discussed one assignment in detail, microteaching. They then watched video recordings of students doing the assignment and began to discuss the criteria for the assignment's oral communication rubric. Based on the video recordings, guiding questions included:
    • What do you see students doing and what feedback would be helpful?
    • How do we group skills into categories?
    • What does a passing performance on each category look like?  An outstanding performance?
    ]]>     2020-09-17 21:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/757064496     Drafting the Rubric egillila https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/789728257 Faculty and staff drafted rubric descriptors based on criteria identified in Workshop 2.]]> 2020-09-29 21:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/789728257 Contact Us egillila https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/789730039 Betsy Gilliland egillila@hawaii.edu
    Dustin Crowther dcrowth@hawaii.edu
    Cari Ryan cariryan@hawaii.edu]]>     2020-09-29 21:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/789730039     General Education: Oral Communication Focus egillila https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/789734676 Student Learning Objectives
    Students will be able to:
    OLO1. Present information orally in an organized manner appropriate for intended a) audience and b) purpose;
    OLO2. Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal delivery techniques;
    OLO3. Select and use appropriate content for oral (presentation) activity/context; and
    OLO4. Generate/use/develop visual aids and handouts appropriate to the rhetorical situation that promote clarity, interest, and comprehension.

    ]]>     2020-09-29 21:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/789734676     The Proposal dcrowth https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/804126370 The Department of Second Language Studies (SLS) BA major includes two electives, SLS 312 and SLS 313, that prepare students to teach key skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) to learners of a second language. As pre-service teachers, their oral communication development must be framed within the field of second/foreign language teaching. As such, assessment of students’ oral communication requires not only consideration of their immediate ability to communicate clearly to their instructor and peers, but also a projection to how clearly they will communicate to second/foreign language learners (their future students). Importantly, both audiences have different needs and impose different communicative challenges for students. The goal of our proposed project is to develop the “Oral Communication for Language Teachers” rubric, which integrates University of Hawai'i Oral Communication Learning Objectives within a discipline-specific rubric for assessing students’ oral communication skills in the varied assignments of the two courses, including oral presentations and teaching demonstrations.]]> 2020-10-05 17:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/804126370 Course Description: SLS 312: Techniques in Second Language Teaching: Reading and Writing egillila https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/804845724 This course is an overview of the theoretical and practical issues involved in the teaching of second or foreign language (L2) reading and writing. The theoretical aspects of the course are integrated with empirical research findings as well as practical concerns and experiences including observation, classroom techniques, and material design. The goals of the course include providing students with opportunities to evaluate materials; to prepare lesson plans and activities; and to observe L2 reading and writing lessons in L2 classrooms.]]> 2020-10-05 21:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/egillila/UHMRubricPoster/wish/804845724