Evaluating and Assessing English Speaking The purpose of assessment instruments is to provide representative grammar,
vocabulary and phonological features of language for evaluating student’sspeaking. Therefore, teachers should consider the best way to test learners because the assessment reflected what has been taught and what has been learned.
Assessing speaking ability was rather difficult and subjective. Nevertheless, it must be valid and reliable (Hughes, 2000). The following are several oral test techniques mentioned in Heaton (1990), Weir (1993), and Underhill (2000) point
out that effective activities to test learners should include pictures, discussion/conversation, interview, role-play, oral report. They suggest several techniques as follows: