MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS DESCRIPTION

General objective Specific Research Data Gathering Instrument Instrument Description

Objectives

Examine the impact of a. Identify the influence of Dichotomous foreign Adapted scale to recognize the levels of foreign language classroom

the relation between 2 types of oral corrective language anxiety scale. anxiety of EFL primary students.
Due to the purposes and features of the study a translated version of
oral corrective feedback feedback on the foreign
the original foreign language classroom anxiety scale for EFL
and speaking foreign language classroom
secondary students from Chile was considered because it had
language anxiety on the anxiety of Chilean EFL
already been validated.
oral production of primary students from a
Then, two out of three categories in the scale were considered
Chilean EFL primary private-subsidized school regardless their relevance with the variables oral corrective feedback
students from a private- from Chiguayante, during and foreign language classroom anxiety, remaining 23 items to
subsidized school from imitative speaking tasks. measure.
Chiguayante, during Afterwards, the lickert scale was piloted with students from
imitative speaking tasks kindergarden, where it was identified that because of young learners
are more concrete, they had troubles to relate numbers with the
intensity they experience each item. Thus, the lickert scale was
transformed into a dichotomous scale with yes/no questions, which
are questions that young learners are able to answer easily.

b. Determine the impact of PRE-/POST-TEST: Oral Adapted rubric to measure students oral production during imitative

the speaking foreign production rubric for speaking tasks.The instrument focuses on two categories, namely
pronunciation and fluency, which is an adaptation from Douglas
language anxiety on the imitative speaking tasks.
Brown, H.& Abeywickrama, P. (2010). Language assessment :
oral production of Chilean
principles and classroom (2nd ed.). (pp.181-187) New York :
EFL primary students from
a private-subsidized school
from Chiguayante, during
imitative speaking tasks.
Pearson Education.
Brown and Abeywickramas book provides a detailed description
about the type of speaking tasks for young language learners (YLL),
how to measure YLLs oral production. Moreover, the book
illustrates two scales to measure pronunciation and fluency, with a
detailed description of each dimension criteria with their
corresponding score.