Guidelines for Evaluation of English Communication Skills COMMUNICATION SKILLS (408)

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STATE BOARD OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRA PRADESH

Guidelines for Evaluation of English Communication Skills

Communication Skills (408)

(Common to All Branches)

Sno.	Topic	Periods	Weightage of  marks (End Exam )	Sessional marks	Total
1	Listening  I	3	10	10
2	Listening II	3			20
3	Introducing oneself	3	50	30	80
4	Describing objects	3
5	Describing events	3
6	Reporting past incidents	3
7	Speaking from observation / reading	3
8	JAM	6
9	Group discussion	6
10	Mock interviews	6
11	Making presentations	6
		45	60	40	100

 Awarding of Sessional Marks

For Listening Skills, teachers may award marks to the students for their comprehension ability in the first two Listening Skills lessons. With regard to speaking skills, teachers may assess the performance of the students in the Lab classes according to their convenient pattern and award marks assessing their language ability and speaking skills. At the end they may be averaged to 30. The division may be…

Listening	10
Speaking Skills
Initiation	10
Content	10
Accuracy	10
Total	40

End Examination

To evaluate the Listening Skills of the students,   the teacher may

·         play any audio available to them preparing a question paper for 10 marks

or

·         play a selection for 10 marks from one of the lessons from listening lessons (from 3-10) of C 09 syllabus, that are available in all the institutions along with  audio. If new colleges do not possesses that they may download from Polytechnicenglish.blogspot.in  / eng.gpadk.edu.in. The written text for them will be uploaded soon. Teachers may select any part for 10 marks.

or

·         select a passage and prepare a question paper. Read out the passage and instruct students to  answer the given questions while listening.

This may be done in common for all the students of a branch at a time. After completion of the task, students may be divided into groups to test their speaking skills through various speaking activities.

To evaluate the Speaking Skills of the Students the teacher may give two activities (a group activity and an individual activity) to each student.  

Activity 1:  Group Discussion / Role play of mock interview/ group presentation on a topic randomly given  (compulsory for all and activity selection through lottery)

Activity 2: As per the number of the students and the time available, teachers may give any task from speaking skills lessons 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or  8,  Lots may be taken by the students.

These two activities may be monitored and evaluated by the internal teacher and external examiner. Marks may be awarded for each activity as given in the following table.

Speaking skills 1 and 2 (25+25= 50)

Content	10
Fluency	5
Accuracy	5
Body language	5
Total	25

Sample Question paper

State Board of Technical Education and Training, Andhra Pradesh

Practical Examinations

C-14  Common – 408

English Communication Skills

Time : 3 hours                                                                                     Maximum Marks: 60

Part A: Listening Skills

This part of the examination tests the students’ skills to comprehend English as they listen to a short talk by the teacher or to conversation /talk played by the teacher. A question paper containing ten questions objective in nature ( FIB/ Multiple Choice) is given to the students.

Instructions:

·         Read the questions numbered 1-10 before you listen to the talk.  (Give students a minute to go through the questions)

·         Answer questions 1-10 as you listen to the talk.

                        10 marks

( This part of the test may take 20 minutes)

Part B : Speaking Skills

                                                                                                                                   50 marks

This part of the examination tests the spoken skills of the students as they use English in different situations.

 Each student may be given two activities of which participating in both is mandatory and the choice picked through lottery by the student from among the activities of the following units:

Activity 1:  Group Discussion / Role play of mock interview/ group presentation on a topic randomly given  (compulsory for all and activity selection through lottery)

Group Discussion:    A group of six or seven students are given a topic and their interaction is

                                  evaluated.

Mock Interviews : A group of three or four role play a panel interview and their interaction is

                               evaluated.

Group Presentation: A group of five or six is given a topic. The students work together and make

                                 a presentation in which all members in the group present one after another

                                 the different  aspects of a topic. (students can present the topic orally/ 

                                through rough paper posters. They need not be insisted on PPTs)

                                 For example : Topic: Plant more saplings –the world today-  benefits of

                                trees  -  why should we do it more today- who should do it- how should we  

                             do it etc. Each aspect may be presented by different students in the group. 

Activity 2: As per the number of the students and the time available, teachers may give any task from speaking skills lessons 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or  8,  Lots may be taken by the students

Introducing oneself        - individual -    (example: tell me about yourself / your strengths)

Describing an object       - individual -    (example: cell phone)

Describing a Person        - individual -    (example: your father)

Describing an Event        - individual -    (example: a birthday party you recently attended)

Speaking from Reading  - individual -     (example : read the given passage and present the main

                                                                 points)

JAM                               - individual -    (example: Talk for a minute on the kabbadi matches)

The table below is a tentative rubric to award marks for the components of language use.

Description of Activity	Content	Fluency in English	Accuracy in using English	Body Language	Total
	10 marks	5 marks	5 marks	5 marks
Group Activity that the student gets through random choice
Individual Activity that the student gets through random choice
Total marks scored for the two speaking activities
Marks scored in Listening test
Total Marks Scored

The time to conduct the examination for a batch of 60 students: 3 hours

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