Analysing and Evaluating an Oral Activity

What kind of oral activity is it eg card game,

discussion, role play?

How would learners be organised ie whole

class, group, pairs, individual?

Does it require one-way or two-way

interaction?

Is it likely to engage all learners and all learners

equally?

Does it focus on short or long speaking turns?

Is it based on a particular speech genre?

Which?

Does the activity focus on meaning? Explain.

Does the activity allow learners to decide for

themselves what meanings they want to
communicate?

Do you feel its age appropriate in terms of the

nature of the activity, the topic, the cognitive

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demands, length of the activity? Give reasons /

details?
Is there a clear outcome which requires
language use and which students will be
motivated to achieve? What is it?

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Does activity require students to interact ie to

listen and to speak and to negotiate meaning?

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Does the activity require students to go beyond

one or two word utterances?

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Is the language of the activity controlled or do

students need to draw on all of their
communicative resources?

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Does the activity require students to produce

language in real time / under the pressure of
time?

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Does the activity require students to manage

the interaction eg turn-taking, agenda
management?

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Does the activity focus on acquiring linguistic

knowledge? What kind? Be detailed.

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Does the activity have some relation to real-life

language use?

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Is the activity likely to motivate / engage

primary learners? Why/why not?

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On the whole, do you think it is a good oral

activity for the primary classroom? Why/why
not? What are its strengths / weaknesses?
What will learners learn? Does it focus more on
speaking as skill or knowledge or both?

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Do you have any suggestions for how it could

be modified and improved?