Online Support for Oral Presentation Skills in a Framework of Portfolio Assessment

Online Support for Oral Presentation Skills in a Framework of Portfolio Assessment

The goal of this study is to provide a model for implementing portfolio assessment in college English education. Since models for performance-based instruction are lacking in Korean English education. this study insists this model be easily applied at the college level where the student learning process can be more easily evaluated than secondary schools. This study provides a framework for portfolio assessment to overcome its existing weaknesses in reliability and validity with online support. The framework includes online support for students to easily access to native speaker models with the easily editable and documentable digital image processing. This paper concretely presents a model of web productions that helps students' listening and speaking practice while implementing learner-centered and process-oriented portfolio assessment. In this study. the self-assessment and peer activity assessment helped students not only improve their ways of speaking presentation. but also build their confidence in speaking in front of others.