An easy way to assess a student’s conversation skills is to initially ask the student a number of random questions and see if they are able to answer with the same conversation pattern in the same tense. There will obviously be some students that have very poor conversation skills and this assessment tool would not be necessary. The students who have no skills need to begin with the real basics beginning on pages 1 through 5 in my book entitled La Bonte’s Top 100 English Conversation Patterns.
The assessment can be found here:
http://www.scribd.com/full/19647805?access_key=key-1aftaior5bpaf6i2185a
http://www.scribd.com/full/19647805?access_key=key-1aftaior5bpaf6i2185a
The revolution has started. The first ever interactive, "multi-touch" ESL textbook, a resource designed to maximize oral output in the classroom, has just been published for iPad. This new classroom resource is called Catalyst: A Conversation Taskbook for English Language Learners and you can find out more by visiting http://www.speekeezy.ca/ or you can just download the free sample on iTunes here:https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/catalyst-esl-taskbook/id564638682?mt=11. This is clearly what Apple had in mind when they released iBooks Authour in January 2012.
ReplyDeleteCatalyst is also available in traditional paper.