When and how to assess?
Examples
Drawing inspiration from the examples of methods and materials
The methods of assessment and materials exemplified aim to take account of everyday uses of the home language and, at the same time, to engage learners who are not necessarily taught their home language. Such new assessment procedures for home language competences may include the following aspects:
The typology has two axes:
The examples of resources given in the diagram are not all illustrated in the systems and materials exemplified.
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Based on the typology of resources above and the preceding examples, here is an overview of the main aspects which make it possible to describe and situate home language assessment materials. The corpus drawn on for this work is limited. For this reason, this overview focuses on a few of the trends that have been identified in the course of the RECOLANG project. The aim of the overview is to show a few examples that may inspire and possibly initiate a process of reflection on the part of stakeholders (schools, parents, decision-makers) who wish to account of learners' home languages at school.
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For example: the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) , the Framework of Reference for Pluralistic Approaches to Languages and Cultures (FREPA), ministerial reference frameworks, etc.
An example is the assessment of oral production * (Tagliante 1991)
Ministerial, national, regional, local, institution-based…