A Study On Evaluative Speech Acts Of English Classroom In Secondary Vocational Schools

Classroom assessment closely related to learning and teaching is obviously negative compared with a leading place of summative assessment in examination and evaluation,and classroom evaluative speech acts that is most frequently used and plays a most direct role in class is also used sort of in a dismissive way and its usage is worrying.Therefore,through exploring effective strategies of assessment language of English classroom in secondary vocational schools,it can raise significance of classroom assessment in vocational education and rich classroom assessment theory better,and improve usage of speech acts of English classroom assessments to prompt teaching and learning.Through literature review,it is found that the existing studies mainly put forward strategies just by improving the assessment language itself and enhancing the evaluation awareness of evaluators,but they cannot fundamentally improve the function and effectiveness of the evaluative speech.Therefor,this paper attempts to transfer the research on evaluative speech acts from "point" to "line",emphasizing the procedural and systematic nature of evaluative speech acts,and promoting the efficient implementation of evaluative speech acts through formulating evaluation tasks and evaluation standards.So this paper includes three questions: what nuclear concepts and elements of evaluative speech acts of English classroom are;how procedures of evaluative speech acts of English classroom construct;how the procedures are applied in real class.There are two tasks to finish the paper.Construct procedures of speech acts of English classroom assessment in secondary vocational schools,and apply them in real class.First receive results of current status on speech acts of English classroom assessment in secondary vocational schools through questionnaire,interview and classroom observation;and combine the results and a Cycle Mode of classroom assessment for learning by Zhao shiguo to construct procedures that are to design assessment tasks before class,perform in class and summarize after class around learning objectives.Teacher and students complete the implementation of this procedure together.And then practice applying the procedures in a medical secondary vocational school.According to the new syllabus,analysis of the students and teaching experience,design six charts before class,including text and vocabulary assessment tasks charts,text and vocabulary assessment criteria,self-assessment and peer assessment charts.Assessment tasks charts can help teachers to control the implementation of speech evaluation in classroom and avoid "blind comments caused by asking and answering".And assessment criteria is the basis for teachers to complete comments and feedback in classroom that can avoid the situation of "no words for teachers to evaluate ",and at the same time,it is also the basis for guiding students to participate evaluation.In addition,the self-assessment form and peer assessment form can regulate students’ participation in evaluation.The most important thing is to instruct students how to complete self-evaluation and mutual evaluation in accordance with assessment criteria.After class,teacher summarizes how teaching plan should be adjusted and how teaching content should be designed in advance;and students summarizes how the teaching objectives and the objectives arrived by themselves will be shortened and take action.Through this paper,define nuclear concepts and nuclear elements of speech acts of English classroom assessment,and construct procedures of speech acts of English classroom assessment in secondary vocational schools that can be performed successfully in real class and improve using of assessment language of English classroom as a whole.But it is worth continuing to research assessment language of English classroom,such as,how the students’ writing assignments and quizzes are evaluated,whether students in secondary vocational schools need participate making assessment criteria and how.