EDU-534 final benchmark

Formative Assignment

Competencies covered in the following assessments:

· Students will be able to demonstrate their effective written communication of the English language.

1- Journal Entry

Students will be required to submit a journal entry in which they express their personal challenges with learning English as a second language as well as what they believe will help them tackle these challenges. This journal entry must be a minimum of 300 words in MLA format. Grading will be based on proper use of grammar, clear and concise thoughts and quality of their writing.

2- Contractions Pronunciation Quiz

1. If a contraction rhymes with another word, it means they

a) end with the same sounds b) sound exactly the same

2. If a contraction is a homophone of another word, it means they

a) have similar vowel sounds b) sound exactly the same

3. Which word rhymes with we'd?

a) fed b) feed

4. Which is a homophone of he'll?

a) heal b) she'll

5. Which word rhymes with she's?

a) seas b) says

6. Which is a homophone of I'd?

a) id b) eyed

7. Which word rhymes with you've?

a) groove b) grove

8. Which two contractions form a rhyming pair?

a) you're, you've b) don't, won't

9. Which is a homophone of I'll?

a) ill b) isle

10. Which word more closely rhymes with it'd?

a) knitted b) knighted

Summative Assignment

Competencies:

Students will demonstrate complete knowledge and comprehension of the English Language

Assignment:

End of year oral ESL assessment:

Students will be asked to repeat a set of 9 questions starting from Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced level of English language and will be graded on pronunciation and annunciation.

Beginner Level; here the teacher will read the sentence once and the students will repeat twice.

1- The girl’s hair is curly.

2- He’s eating a banana.

3- The teacher laughed.

Intermediate Level; here the student will read the sentence first with little to no assistance from the instructor.

1- On the weekend Alex brought us some cookies.

2- That purple ball is from the toy store.

3- The giraffe at the Zoo is eating his lettuce.

Advanced Level; here students will be expected to read the following sentences on their own.

1- My teacher likes to drink orange juice early in the morning.

2- There goes the lady whose job is to deliver bread to the classroom.

3- At the end of the day, the man got in his small car and began to drive home.