Microsoft Word language assessment theory with practice

(i) Formative Assessment Effectively Embedded in Lesson Plans and 
Learning Activities 
Black and Wiliam’s (1998) definition of assessment includes all activities 
that teachers and learners engage in to get information that can be used to adapt 
teaching and learning to meet student needs. Example 1 illustrates how 
reference to a past learning event (RPLE), which is defined as the formative 
assessment act which “occurs when the teacher contingently extends the main 
instructional activity by focusing on language items, structures or topics which 
were presented in a past learning event (Can Daşkın & Hatipoğlu, 2019a, p. 
17), can be used to check whether or not students are ready for the introduction 
of a topic which is at least partially based on material previously discussed in 
class. RPLE can be used at the beginning, middle and/or end of a lesson with 
students with all proficiency levels. Such noticeably short and efficient 
exercises can serve as checkpoints and traffic lights guiding teachers to plan 
their next steps in the most beneficial way for the students.

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Assessment of Language Skills: Productive Skills
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Example 1: Reference to a Past Learning Event (RPLE) (Based on Can Daşkın & 
Hatipoğlu, 2019a, 2019b). 
Level: 
B1 (Grade 7) [Note: This activity was designed for Grade 7 (B1) level 
students, but RPLE can be used with all proficiency levels in both accuracy 
and fluency focused sessions] 
Topic: 
Describing people 
Aim(s): 
*To check whether or not students remember and employ correctly 
vocabulary and grammar structures used to describe people’s physical 
appearance 
*To show the parallelism between describing physical appearance and 
personal features 
Background 
and 
Procedures: 
•In their previous lesson, students learned how to describe the physical 
appearance of people.
A: They learned the positive, negative and interrogative grammatical