Using conversation in teaching EFL assessment at college

Abstract EN

Using conversation in teaching EFL assessment subject is a student- centered technique that belongs to the active learning by which students compose their own conversation to explain the material themselves using all their potentials, innovations, technologies… etc to help their instructor have an objective impression about what they really can do in class if they are given the opportunity.

After being taught according to a traditional method for twenty hours, two hours per a week, a test in EFL assessment subject was administered among eighty-six seniors in the department of English-College of Education-University of Samarra to choose the sample of the study.

The average score of the students' scores was calculated and only fifty students whose scores had one standard deviation above or below the average score had been chosen as the sample of the study.

Then, the average score of the scores of the sample was calculated.

The test consisted of twelve items.

The sample then had been taught for twenty hours, two hours per a week by using conversation as a kind of active learning.

According to this technique, students were allowed to compose their own conversation to explain the material using all what they want to use of strategies, technologies and equipment.

The instructor's interference was very limited.

After that a post-test consisting of nine items was administered among the students of the sample.

The first aim of the study was measuring the effectiveness of the technique of using conversation while the second aim was finding out whether there was a significant difference between the males' achievement and the females' achievement in the pre-test and the post-test.

Results were analyzed by using SPSS.

Concerning the first aim, the technique proved to be effective and regarding the second aim, there was no significant difference between the males' achievement and the females' achievement in the pre-test and the Using conversation in teaching EFL assessment subject is a student- centered technique that belongs to the active learning by which students compose their own conversation to explain the material themselves using all their potentials, innovations, technologies… etc to help their instructor have an objective impression about what they really can do in class if they are given the opportunity.

After being taught according to a traditional method for twenty hours, two hours per a week, a test in EFL assessment subject was administered among eighty-six seniors in the department of English-College of Education-University of Samarra to choose the sample of the study.

The average score of the students' scores was calculated and only fifty students whose scores had one standard deviation above or below the average score had been chosen as the sample of the study.

Then, the average score of the scores of the sample was calculated.

The test consisted of twelve items.

The sample then had been taught for twenty hours, two hours per a week by using conversation as a kind of active learning.

According to this technique, students were allowed to compose their own conversation to explain the material using all what they want to use of strategies, technologies and equipment.

The instructor's interference was very limited.

After that a post-test consisting of nine items was administered among the students of the sample.

The first aim of the study was measuring the effectiveness of the technique of using conversation while the second aim was finding out whether there was a significant difference between the males' achievement and the females' achievement in the pre-test and the post-test.

Results were analyzed by using SPSS.

Concerning the first aim, the technique proved to be effective and regarding the second aim, there was no significant difference between the males' achievement and the females' achievement in the pre-test and the post-test.