HET CERTIFICAAT NEDERLANDS ALS VREEMDE TAAL

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HET CERTIFICAAT NEDERLANDS ALS VREEMDE TAAL
Nele.Maddens_at_arts.kuleuven.be B.vanOel_at_uva.nl
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Leuven, September 22 2005
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Developing an examiner instruction video for
assessment of functional oral interaction
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THE CERTIFICATE OF DUTCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
? Administered worldwide ? Functional and
task-based exams ? From language needs to
language profiles
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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

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• C2
• C1
• B2
• B1
• A2
• A1
• PTIT PMT PPT PAT
• PTPB PTHO

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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

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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
• ? 6th minimum standard of ALTE

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ALTE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR QUALITY OF
EXAMINATIONS

• 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

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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

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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
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HOW TO CONDUCT PART C ?

• ? 5 conversations
• ? Dos and donts for the examiner
• ? Reflection with other examiner
• ? Solutions for the donts
• Example The hotel room

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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

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• QUESTIONS?