ABSTRACT
Unlike the receptive skills, the performance of productive and interactive language skills is audible or visible to observers in the form of speech or writing. In addition to eliciting samples of spoken or written language that reflect real-life language use, assessment designers need to consider how those samples should be judged. Alongside options for task design, approaches to scoring spoken and written performance are illustrated and discussed. Approaches to setting appropriate standards for grades and passing scores are also described.
