Establishment of a practical speaking test and peer assessment system to promote speech production

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520744
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: HIRAI Akiyo 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (00312786)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): O'KI Toshihide 白鴎大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (90580861)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): KOIZUMI Rie 順天堂大学, 医学部, 准教授 (70433571)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: スピーキング評価 / ストーリーリテリング / ピア評価 / 技能統合

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to develop a practical classroom-based Story Retelling Speaking Test (SRST) with an assessment rubric that fits the needs of junior and senior high schools as well as universities. To this end, first, we modified the original SRST in order to find a) how many target grammar items or expressions should be integrated in a story to promote the use of the target items in the subsequent retelling task, and b) what kind of instructions or hints should be given in the test. Next, we made a rubric for this revised SRST and confirmed it had high concurrent validity with an external speaking test, even under peer assessment conditions. However, we found that students scored their peer's linguistic aspects less reliably than content aspects of the rubric criteria.

Free Research Field

英語教育、言語評価