Setting the standards for the foreign language speaking tasks of the New Baccalaureate General Test
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/57991DOI: 10.4304/tpls.4.9.1763-1769
ISSN: 1799-2591
Date
2014-06-15Funders
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Bibliographic citation
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2014, v. 4, n. 9, p. 1763-1769
Keywords
Spain Baccalaurate General Test
Speaking competence testing
Pilot speaking test
Oral test validation
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/Programa Nacional de Investigación Fundamental/ FFI2011-22442 /ES/ORIENTACION, PROPUESTAS Y ENSEÑANZA PARA LA SECCION DE INGLES EN LA PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
One of the most significant aspects of the Spanish new educational reform is the Baccalaureate General Test which is intended to replace the former University Entrance Examination. The new test will include an oral part, which needs to be created, based on current research on the field (Bueno-Alastuey & Luque, 2010), and tested with students from different regions in Spain to confirm its validity. This paper describes the preparation and first results of a pilot study using some proposed tasks. The speaking tasks were based on the ones currently used in the Cambridge Preliminary English Test but conveniently adapted to the Spanish context as suggested by some studies (Amengual-Pizarro & Mendez García, 2010). This paper shows the perceived strengths and weaknesses of those tasks and the test based on current testing literature on construct definition (Bachman & Palmer, 1996) and validation (Weir, 2005; Fulcher, 2010; Ekbatani, 2011). Results showed that the test corresponds better to classroom practice and favors both washback and language development at a lower cost.
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