Designing Assessment Tasks
Imitative Writing

Spelling Tasks and Detecting Phoneme – Grapheme Correspondences
1. Spelling tests

1. Multiple-choice techniques

1. Matching phonetic symbols

Intensive (Controlled) Writing
• As one may think, Intensive writing as described here has nothing to do with writing intensively, but controlled.
• Under this definition, students are supposed to copy sentences and words, rewrite texts and passages, order sentences among others.
Dictation and Dicto-Comp
• Dictation is basically copying what your hear ( imitative )
• Rewrite a paragraph with their recollection from what was understood

Grammatical transformation tasks (practical, reliable)
• Combination of sentences
• Active to passive
• Direct to Indirect
• Reduced forms
• Endless possibilities


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• Inversion
Example:

a) You aren’t listening to me.
Int: ______________________________________________
Aff: ______________________________________________
Picture-Cued tasks (nonverbal means to stimulate written responses)
• Picture description
• Picture sequence description
• Picture-Cued Short sentences
 
 

What’s Felipe doing?
He’s sleeping. He’s taking a nap.