Assessing Business English speaking skill The case of BE students of Kasdi Merbah University career centre

Abstract

This dissertation is composed of three chapters. It is carried out to investigate how to assess BE students’ speaking skill. The speaking skill is a hard task and a puzzling issue that challenges teachers and researchers. In the theoretical part we have mentioned the speaking skill assessment. Most important facts concerning each phase of testing speaking process have been explained. Assessing speaking represents a broad area of language testing. Thus we focused most specifically on the activities and the ways how can be used in testing speaking process. Data collected in the theoretical part represents a theoretical base for further research needs in the practical part of our thesis. In this thesis we explored the actual situation of assessing speaking at the career centre through the method of a structured interview with teachers followed by students’ questionnaire. The results of the present study show that the speaking test at the career centre is reliable and effective. And the individual interview is the best activity used in the test in order to assess learners’ proficiency in business context. From the findings of this study we suggest some recommendations for further research.