Developing an Developing an examiner instruction video examiner instruction video

for assessment of for assessment of functional oral interactionfunctional oral interaction

THE CERTIFICATE OF DUTCH THE CERTIFICATE OF DUTCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGEAS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Administered worldwide

Functional and task-based exams

From language needs to language profiles

THETHE 66 DOMAINSDOMAINS

Tourist and informal language proficiency

Societal language proficiency Professional language proficiency Academic language proficiency Language proficiency in practical

professions Language proficiency in higher

education

• C2

• C1• B2• B1• A2• A1

PTIT PMT PPT PAT

PTPB PTHO

STRUCTURE OF EACH EXAMSTRUCTURE OF EACH EXAM

Integrated language skills

→ similar to natural language tasks Three parts (pragmatic reasons):

Part A: tests listening comprehension

Part B: tests reading and writing ability

Part C: tests speaking ability

DEVELOPMENT OF AN DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUCTION VIDEOINSTRUCTION VIDEO

Why?

Question from the examiners for more support concerning instructions for administration

Striving for standardization and transparency in the administration

→ 6th minimum standard of ALTE

ALTE MINIMUM STANDARDS ALTE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR QUALITY OF FOR QUALITY OF EXAMINATIONSEXAMINATIONS

6th minimum standard:

‘Examinations have to be administered according to clear, transparent, established procedures and the institutes who administer the exams have to have access to regulations about how to do so’

TENSIONTENSION

Need for standardization, transparency and intelligible instructions

Examiners work on a voluntary basis: instructions have to be friendly and not too compulsory

→ Solution: instruction video

STRUCTURE OF THE DVDSTRUCTURE OF THE DVD

Recieving the exams

Conducting Part A

Conducting Part B

Conducting Part C

Sending back the exams

In each part suggestions for good practice

Survey of the information in a manual

HOW TO CONDUCT PART C ?HOW TO CONDUCT PART C ?

5 conversations

Do’s and dont’s for the examiner

Reflection with other examiner

Solutions for the dont’s

Example: The hotel room

EXAMPLE: THE HOTELROOMEXAMPLE: THE HOTELROOM

Conversate naturally

Ask the candidate to speak Dutch if he/she

speaks in his/her mother language

Keep a calm speaking rate and stick to the

point

QUESTIONS?QUESTIONS?