This week, students are presenting short stories in front of the class so that I can assess each student's oral proficiency in French. The goal is not at all to memorise a long story. Students should simply choose a topic to introduce to the class, and be prepared to answer questions about that topic or story. I have advised them to choose something that they find easy to talk about, rather than a topic requiring a lot of unfamiliar vocabulary.
Students and I discussed last week how I would be evaluating them. The rubric that I am using comes from the Canadian Association of Immersion Teachers (http://www.acpi.ca/index.cfm?M=3191&Repertoire_No=2137989657&Voir=menu). The same rubric is used in all Saskatooon Public Immersion schools to evaluate French oral proficiency.
