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[Fishead soup]

The student memorize a simple one page dialog from the text and perform it with a partner. The lowest score we're allowed to give them is seven. No wonder students focus more on listening and reading.

[richardlang]

Yea, that's the same for my grading rubric as well. It's set by the Gyeonggi board of education, in my case.

20% 10
15% 9
15% 8
20% 7

10 is the highest score, while 7 is the lowest. That's the curve I am required to give.

You know, if it weren't for conversation scripts, I really don't know how I'd be able to get the students to talk at length. If anything, my high school students have been studying English for quite some time but can speak only at a very basic level. Conversation scripts, with multiple sentence options on the back page, help in this respect because it's the best way to maximize student speaking time. Most students create their own conversations with a bunch of modifications (.e.g extra words or phrases they like to use). This helps. At the end of each presentation, I give them a grade, then I ask students some questions about the presentation that just ended. I give extra points to students who respond with answers showing they had listened. The way to get students to participate is to base everything you on their grades.

[richardlang]

For students who sleep or don't try I give them a 7. In some of my classes, this helps with my meeting the grading curve. In other classes, I have to grade harder because the whole class participates well and is creative.

[Young FRANKenstein]