Sprechfertigkeitstest: Lernzielgerechte leistungskontrolle im sprachlabor und ihre technologischen probleme

Abstract

Oral productive ability is accepted to be the major teaching aim of foreign language instruction at the level of Sekundarstufe I in West German schools. It is usually by means of written tests, however, that a pupil's progress is judged. The reason for this contradiction is not so much a lack of oral production tests as the fact that such tests can be carried out adequately only in an AAC-language laboratory and that the expense of carrying them out is enormous. The application of a new recording device would reduce this expense to a reasonable amount. As the oral production of a whole test-group could be directly recorded onto a single magnetic tape or disc, production tests could be carried out in an AA-lab as well. Scoring could be done anywhere at any time without the need to remove the tapes from the students' booths or to copy them tediously one after the other in order not to obstruct the lab. An additional advantage would be a reduction in the space required for the necessary filing of tests.