Comparative Study on Speaking Assessment Rubrics in Trinity and Cambridge Language Certificates
The European Council has been instrumental in the standardization of language competence levels and certifications with the guidelines provided in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) published in 2001 and later reviewed in 2020 with the Companion Volume with New Descr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Scientia Publishing House
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica |
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| Online Access: | http://acta.sapientia.ro/content/docs/142-04.pdf |
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| Summary: | The European Council has been instrumental in the standardization
of language competence levels and certifications with the guidelines
provided in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
(CEFR) published in 2001 and later reviewed in 2020 with the Companion
Volume with New Descriptors (CEFRCV). Cambridge Assessment English
and Trinity College are two of the highest regarded institutions at the
international level that grant their language certificates following the
language competence levels provided by the CEFR. For this reason, the
current study is grounded on the conviction that those certificates should
meet certain principles of the Framework as a form of guarantee that they
are assessing the CEFR level correctly. In particular, this paper focuses on
the speaking skill and the rubrics of assessment used by the two aforementioned institutions. The rubrics of Trinity and Cambridge for the
assessment of the oral production at the B2 CEFR level were considered
for the purposes of this study – in particular, the rubrics that assess the
oral production in the Integrated Skills in English (ISE-II) exam and in the
First Certificate in English (B2 First). With a qualitative document research
approach, this study analyses these rubrics in order to determine to what
extent they respect the criteria established by the CEFR. |
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| ISSN: | 2067-5151 2068-2956 |