Assessment and peer assessment of foreign speaking production competence of the 1st year pre – service teachers

Abstract

The article focuses on the assessment and peer – assessment of the foreign language speaking production skills of the 1st year pre – service teachers. The analysis of the existing evaluative tasks for speaking assessment has been done and best tasks for 2 types of monologues – a monologue – description and a monologue – narration have been collected. Successful assessment requires definite criteria to be chosen. In this paper criteria have been established and explained and 2 rating scales for a monologue – description and a monologue – narration have been developed.