Productive Skills Assessment

Center for Development and Empowerment of Language

Teachers and Education Personnel, Ministry of Education
and Culture (CDELTEP, MoEC)

  Pusat Pengembangan dan Pemberdayaan Pendidik dan

Tenaga Kependidikan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan
Kebudayaan (PPPPTK Bahasa, Kemdikbud).

© Assessment Team,CDELTEP, MoEC

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 Core Skills and Sub-Skills
What is a sub-skill?

-”specific behaviours that language users do in order to be

effective in each of the skills” (British Council
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/sub-skills)

-”a skill that is part of the main skill”(Spratt, Pulverness and Williams 2005, The TKT
Course)

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SKILLS, STRATEGIES,
ATTITUDES AND
BEHAVIOURS
1. Understand features of spoken
language (spoken vs written)

2. Pronunciation and intonation

3. Planning and Organization

4. Delivery

5. Interaction Skills

6. Spontaneous and planned texts

(grammatically accurate, fluent,
coherent and cohesive)

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Speaking Sub-Skills required for IELTS Speaking Test
Fluency and Coherence
-speech rate (pace) & continuity (no hesitation)
-use of discourse markers
-topic development
Lexical Resource
-range of vocabulary
-use of idiom
-paraphrasing

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

-sentence structure
-error frequency
-seriousness of error (prevent communication)

Pronunciation
-phonological features
-rhythm, stress, intonation
-ease/difficulty in understanding message 4
WRITING Sub-Skills required for IELTS WRITING Test
Task Response/Task Achievement
-Formulate and develop a position in relation to the prompt
-Address all relevant information from the prompt (diagram/letter)

Coherence & Cohesion

-Logical order of ideas
-Use of cohesive devices, transitions

Lexical Resource
-range, accuracy and appropriacy of vocabulary

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

-sentence structure
-error frequency
-seriousness of error (prevent communication)

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SKILLS, STRATEGIES,
ATTITUDES AND
BEHAVIOURS
1. Penmanship

2. Spelling

3. Content (Selection of Ideas)

4. Development and Organization

of Ideas

5. Writing Process: Review,

Revision and Editing

6. Text Types (appropriate

register and tone)
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 Macro Skill: Listening

Core Skill: Produce the

sounds of the target
language at the segmental
and suprasegmental level

Specific Skills: Articulate the

vowels and consonants and
blended sounds of English
clearly

Micro Skill/Strategy:
Distinguish between p/b
sound and produce p/b/
sounds accurately
(Similar to lesson objectives)

The term “Sub-Skills” is used to refer to Core, Specific and Micro

Skill/Strategy! 7
Sample TOS for Speaking Skills
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Sample TOS for Writing Skills

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 Assignment:
Productive Skills Students
•Develop a Speaking and Writing Test and
rubrics for assessment based on your TOS. Bring
to class tomorrow to pilot.

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