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Assessing Speaking and Interaction

Figure 13.4 Mind-Map as Support for an Oral Presentation on Siberian Tigers

storieshasan important impact on theirlanguagedevelopment.AsRileyand
Burrell(2007,p.182)argue,‘storytelling (whether their own stories or retelling
those read to them) gives children opportunities to speak at length and in
longer utterances than in conversation.’ This is why storytelling is not just a
suitable activity in teaching YLs an FL but can also be used as an assessment
task.
However, when using storytelling as a speaking assessment activity, teach-

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