Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Enhance your modern foreign language assessment practice with this free course. Explore key issues, strategies, and approaches for effective assessment in secondary schools. Develop a deeper understanding of progress, challenges, and the impact of assessment on pedagogy.
This free course, Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages, will identify and explore some of the key issues around assessing modern foreign languages in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your assessment practice as a modern foreign languages teacher and develop a greater awareness of the implications of assessment practice on pedagogy and its relevance for modern foreign language education.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Articulate what it means to make progress in MFL
List a number of key assessment strategies
Identify the challenges to assessing language learning
Outline the differences between formative and summative assessment
Classify some different assessment approaches.