This is the link to the recording of the Igniting and Assessing Students Oral Production in English Class webinar to refer back to.

Here is a link to the slideshow used during the Igniting and Assessing Students Oral Production in English Class webinar  to refer back to.

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Este documento tiene como propósito brindar orientaciones técnicas respecto de la elaboración y aplicación de la prueba oral para la medición de las competencias lingüísticas de comprensión oral y producción oral, en las habilidades de escucha y habla respectivamente, en los diferentes niveles, ciclos y modalidades del sistema educativo público costarricense. 

This is a video clip of Camille Campbell introducing a new Toolkit for English teachers that will support them in planning classes for oral production and interaction. In the video Camille also shares the new modules with multiple tasks for students to do in Aprendo Pura Vida. 

This Toolkit outlines the differences between spoken production and spoken interactions and offers ways work working with both in the classroom. This Toolkit was created by Peace Corp Response Volunteer Camille Campbell in collaboration with MEP.

A MEP resource link for different Apps, digital learning resources, and interactive ideas for learning English. 

El Ministerio de Educación Pública, en colaboración con la UNICEF, la DDC, DVE y profesores, ofrece a los estudiantes del sistema educativo costarricense la plataforma Aprendo Pura Vida de  Learning Passport, una propuesta de cursos libres de forma asincrónica

The goal of the site is to provide support and guidance to teachers for the mediation of the goals of the New English Syllabus and the development of communicative competence. Besides, making the teaching and learning process more related to the needs of the real world. This site presents tasks for each competence and becomes a rich source of ideas that provides useful information for the development of oral and written comprehension and production. 

In this article, the author wishes to share her ideas for using one specific mobile application, Marco Polo, for stimulating spontaneous oral communication and providing feedback to learners. 

In this webinar, Rhona Snelling explores what sub-skills are involved in speaking and how teachers can approach speaking activities with their young adult and adult classes. She covers techniques and practical classroom activities to help your students develop their speaking skills and communicate with confidence.

This webinar focuses on activities that participants can use in teaching speaking in multi-level classes with students of all ages. Participants will receive step-by-step instructions for each activity so they are prepared to use them with confidence in their classes. Each speaking activity includes options for teaching different types of students. With some modification, each activity can be reused multiple times during a language course.

The Companion Volume, and in particular the descriptors for new areas, represent an enrichment of the original descriptive apparatus. Those responsible for curriculum planning for foreign languages and languages of schooling will find further guidance for promoting plurilingual and intercultural education in the Guide for the Development and Implementation of Curricula for Plurilingual and Intercultural Education. 

This blogger offers good advice you can offer your students to improve their performance in oral interaction.

This week’s American English Teacher’s Corner presents scaffolding techniques that are useful for giving beginner-level students the structured practice they need to produce English in meaningful ways.  

In this video, the teacher presents a lesson using "television and mass media" as the guiding content theme. During the lesson, the students participate in both structured and open-ended activities that are related to the theme. Several of the activities in class are student-centered, requiring student input, critical thinking, and creative thinking.

Shaping the Way We Teach English: From Observation to Action contains 13 units that explore 11 full-length class videos and two shorter videos about alternative assessment. The units provide hands-on, discussion, and reflection activities that help users to develop a variety of pedagogical skills

A teacher training resource that contains 13 units that explore 11 full-length class videos and two shorter videos about alternative assessment. The units provide hands-on, discussion, and reflection activities that help users to develop a variety of pedagogical skills. (Produced by the U.S. Department of State's Office of English Language Programs)

A collection of games for the language classroom. The games in Activate offer practice with vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and interaction skills in a learner-centered, low-stress environment. The games provide opportunities to talk informally and to think creatively.

Each game shows the path that the players must follow and the English phrases that the players must produce orally. Each board game has a theme that requires the students to produce certain types of expressions, so they practice a variety of vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and functional meanings.

This article discusses the little used but important option of assigning oral homework activities as a way to give more attention to a critical skill that demands a lot of exposure and serious practice to master. 

In this webinar Senior English Language Fellow Debra Burgess, along with English language teacher Lourdes Talavera, present the framework for establishing a creative, caring and communicative-based approach for English language production.

Encourage your students to talk more using these easy tips, activities, and lessons! This webinar will help you plan easy and effective lessons, creating confident, motivated, English language speakers. 

To help teachers track  their students’ expressive vocabulary acquisition, this article presents five test formats that English language teachers can  use or adapt to gauge their students’ productive vocabulary knowledge.

This is a great structure to give students a way to interact with each other and move around the room!