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Table 4 Classroom activities and assessment practice

From: Washback of assessment on English teaching-learning practice at secondary schools

Teachers’ #

Activities and in-class assessment

T1

Reading passage, paragraph writing on “Your first day at school”

T2

Asking questions orally based on reading passage

T3

Reading passage, writing meanings of new vocabulary

T4

At first, the teacher showed students a picture and then asked them to explain the picture. Then, the teacher translated the English text into Bangla. Finally, he involved them in writing dialogues.

T5

Reading a passage, then filling in the blanks and answering questions.

T6

During the entire period, the teacher read aloud from the text and students listened to him. Sometimes, he wrote questions on board before reading from the text, and after finishing reading, he asked for answer to those questions and students answered.

T7

Teacher read a passage aloud. Then, he discussed some questions with the students. Finally, he gave “fill in the blanks” as home-work exercise.

T8

Teacher read a passage aloud and then students also read it. He involved them in pair work to do the activities like answering the questions, identifying true/false statements followed by the passage.

T9

Sentence making with adjectives, reading passage, writing meanings of new vocabulary, paragraph writing as HW

T10

Asking questions, matching table based on a reading passage

T11

Teacher explained a reading passage with Bangla meaning, asked questions on the passage, and assigned a home-work on writing a paragraph (about yourself)

T12

Teacher read a passage aloud, told the meaning of new words, and assigned home-work based on the same passage.