Huda, Miftahul 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0196-9262 and Himmah, Aliyatul
(2014)
Reforming the assessment criteria of speaking skill in TEFL: the implications of world englishes.
Presented at 7th International Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN), 24-25 Nov 2014, Bandung.
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Abstract
Soon after Kachru (1985) promoted the notion of the World of English(es) through his ‘inner-outer-expanding circle’ principle, the public has widely recognized that the number of English non-native speakers has noticeably surpassed its native speakers. Such a phenomenon has led English learners of culturally and linguistically diverse societies to acquire sufficient oral proficiencies yet deemed as deviations of ‘standard’ English, supposing that their accents are phonologically inaccurate (this is to say, strange, foreign, and non-standard). Universal recognition upon the trend of Global English (Graddol, 2006) is, paradoxically, not followed by the practitioners’ pedagogical breakthrough to de-value the ‘nativelikeness’ criterion in assessing the students’ oral proficiency. Many scoring rubrics, such as those proposed by Harris (1990), Ur (1996), and Brown (2004), still consider foreign / mother-tongue accent, which is actually an inevitable implication of World of English(es) trend and thus worth-tolerating, as interfering factors hindering oral accuracy. This paper, therefore, aims to provide a critical insight upon oral proficiency assessment by redefining the conventional concept of ‘accuracy’ and reviewing some principles to reformulate alternative scoring criteria which assure phonological diversity for successful communication in the World of English(es). It seeks to propose a speaking assessment rubric which emphasizes on “understandability” of utterance instead of holding tightly the traditional view upon single phonological / pronunciation accuracy as maintained by the proponent of standard English.
| Item Type: | Conference (Paper) |
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| Keywords: | assessment; speaking; TEFL; world english(es) |
| Subjects: | 13 EDUCATION > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy > 130207 LOTE, ESL and TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2004 Linguistics > 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) > 20040501 Language Varieties (incl. Code Mixing, Code Switching) 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2004 Linguistics > 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) > 20040501 Language Change |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities > Department of English Language and Letters |
| Depositing User: | Miftahul Huda |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2023 09:52 |
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