Scheme

Flint (Moskowitz, 1976)

Focus (Fanselow, 1977)

TALOS (Ullman & Geva

1984)

COLT (Spada &

Frhlich, 1995).

IFOS (Simmard & Jean

2011)

Content
A set of 22
categories with the
purpose to
examine the 22
categories of the
L2 classroom
practice.
A set of four
dimensions
analyzing the
communicative
dimension of L2
teaching:
structuring,
soliciting,
responding and
reacting.
Analysis of the
communicative
abilities of
students, parents,
teachers and
school
administrator
questionnaires. It
had two different
parts: a low
inference part and
a high inference
one.
A set of categories
that can measure
typical
communicative
features of the
classroom
discourse.

A set of 10
categories such as
time, skills,
teaching type,
language aspect,

Objectives
To register what
constitutes an
effective teaching.

Validation
No information
available.

To analyze what
happens in the
classroom from a
communicative
perspective.

No information
available.

To evaluate
second language
programs in the
Canadian school
context.

No information
available.

To analyze
teaching and
learning practices
in L2 classrooms
and its categories
of analysis
describe both
meaning- and
form-oriented L2
instructions.
To register the
conducted
pedagogical
practices by
teachers to get the

No information
available.

No information
available.

among others.

ELT Competency
Scheme (Izquierdo et al
2012)

a set of 11
categories.

attention of
students in the
teaching of
language forms.
Qualitative and
Quantitative
validation.