Teaching Oral Skills:

Goal of the workshop: To increase skills in teaching and assessing listening and speaking skills.

Workshop objectives for participants: At the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

• Recognize the purpose and underlying principles of five oral production and assessment techniques,
• Identify key steps in teaching oral skills,
• Adapt activities for multilevel classes,
• Describe performance and content standards, and
• Identify characteristics of good assessments.

Important Note: In order to attend this workshop, you will be asked to complete an on-line overview of Virginia's Adult ESOL Content Standards. Some of you have already done so or completed it in order to attend the Teaching Reading workshop held earlier this year. Others will need to do this before the workshop.

Audience: ESOL Teachers of all language levels
Duration: 7.5 hours