Table of Contents

Contents: Critical Components of Effective Instruments of Diagnostic Oral Skills Assessment: Content validity, authentic language tasks, summative versus formative evaluation, norm- versus criterion-referencing – Current Methods of Oral Skills Assessment: criteria, method, validity, reliability, frequency – Availability of Diagnostic Testing Material – Implementation and Evaluation of Guidelines.

About the Author

Jo Ann Salvisberg currently lectures at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Business, Luzern, Switzerland, and works as a freelance trainer. She has been involved in TESOL since 1990, primarily teaching adult learners, and began doing teacher training in 2001. In addition to the CTEFLA (Certificate for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults), she completed her studies with an M.Ed. in ELT in 2001, and a PhD in TEFL (Teaching English to Speakers fo Other Languages) and Social Psychology in Education in 2007 with a primary research focus on communicative skills assessment in the EFL classroom.