AROSE – Advancing and Reassessing Oral Skills for English

Objectives

• Reflecting on English teachers’ practice and providing a better understanding of oral skills assessment models for students of English as a foreign language
• Improving oral English skills of students in upper secondary schools by creating a feasible assessment model
• Helping English teachers in upper secondary schools improve their assessment skills
• Including useful tests assessing English oral skills in final qualification examination at the end of secondary education

Activities

• Research aimed at developing an assessment model and guidelines so as to evaluate English oral skills of students in upper secondary schools
• Design and development of a library of Open Educational Resources to be used by teachers and students of upper secondary schools
• Design of an e-toolkit for English teachers on methodologies and strategies aimed at improving English oral skills of students in upper secondary schools
• Creation of a training course for English teachers in upper secondary schools so as to train them to use the aforementioned tools in the classroom
• Design and development of a digital platform facilitating the assessment of English oral skills
• Collection of policy recommendations on English language teaching practices targeted at teachers, families, stakeholders and educational policy makers in EU

Resources

• Oral skills assessment model and Repository of OER
• Toolkit and Training Course for English language teachers
• Web-based Evaluation tooland Guidelines for English Oral Skills Assessment
• Newsletters

Impact

• English teachers in upper secondary schools will be able to improve their teaching practice and evaluation skills
• Students in upper secondary schools will be able to enhance their English oral skills thanks to the creation of a more efficient assessment model
• English teachers and students will benefit from a more consistent use of digital resources in the classroom

Partners

• Coordinator: University of Murcia (Spain)
• Region de Murcia (Spain)
• Instituto de Educacion Secundaria La Flota (Spain)
• Adiyaman Milli Egitim Mudurlugu (Turkey)
• Adiyaman Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi (Turkey)
• CESIE (Italy)
• IS “Duca Abruzzi – Libero Grassi” (Italy)
• Casa do Professor (Portugal)
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Amares (Portugal)