Developing an examiner instruction video for assessment of

Developing an examiner instruction video for assessment of functional oral interaction

THE CERTIFICATE OF DUTCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Administered worldwide Functional and task-based exams From language needs to language profiles

THE 6 DOMAINS Tourist and informal language proficiency Societal language proficiency Professional language proficiency Academic language proficiency Language proficiency in practical professions Language proficiency in higher education

• C 2 • • • C 1 B 2 B 1 A 2 A 1 PTIT PMT PTPB PPT PAT PTHO

STRUCTURE 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 INSTRUCTION VIDEO Why? Question from the examiners for more support concerning instructions for administration Striving for standardization and transparency in the administration → 6 th minimum standard of ALTE

ALTE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR QUALITY OF EXAMINATIONS 6 th 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’

TENSION 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 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 ? 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 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?