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Fauziah Hassan and Nita Fauzee Selamat (2002) in their study on the
reasons for students‟ lack of proficiency in ESL from the teachers‟
perspectives concluded that the weakest skill of the English learners in
Malaysia was speaking.
The OET is part of the national level Malaysian Certificate of Education
or SPM examination which has a strong influence on the future of
students in Malaysia.
CHARACTERISTICS OF OET
A new standardized national scale school-based Oral English Test (OET) was
introduced to Malaysian schools in 2002 and the results were first announced
nationwide in 2003.
Develop students’ oral competence in line with the learning objectives stated in the
English Language Syllabus for Malaysian Secondary Schools (Malaysian Examination
Syndicate, 2002).
Encourages authenticity in order to assess a candidate’s real speaking ability.
Encourages teaching and learning processes in the classroom.
The test provides a continuous assessment of a student for two years from Form 4
until Form 5, as the student is assessed twice in Form 4 and once again in Form 5.
CONT…
Miss Y is new to the system. She has 5 years of teaching experience. The youngest teacher
in the English Unit and having problem understanding the requirements of EOT and how to
evaluate it. She questioned that the assessment of the EOT is not reliable and not valid.
She claimed that the district level assessors are often not happy with marks that she has
allocated, deeming her too strict and the marks given too low. Some of the complaints
received from the district level assessors are that she should be fair in grading and that the
students deserve higher marks. But according to her:
How fair is fair? She was not given training, briefing yes, but no training, so how can they
criticize her? The assessor did not do any inter-rater exercise with the teacher, only the
marks given were analyzed.
Among the English teachers in our college, they have a consensus as to the marks given.
FLOWCHART OF ORAL ENGLISH TEST
PROCEDURE
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