PERFORMANCE - BASED FOREIGN LANGUAGE EVALUATION
Palabras clave:
Foreign language teaching, assesment, evaluation, performance-based assesment, performance-based evaluation, teacher role, facilitator, constructivism, SLA theoryResumen
This paper discusses evaluation practices for foreign language learning. It explains and shows examples of what language acquisition facilitators can do to evaluate communicative language use in their students. The paper explores theory and practice in education and second language acquisition (SLA) and shows how these two areas mesh together in order to a form performance-based assessment and evaluation system in the DELC–UPAEP. Important terms such as assessment, evaluation, competence, and performance as well as aspects of ACTFL’s foreign language teaching framework will be discussed in order to explain how DELC’s foreign language students are evaluated. y
