Just Speak (and Have Fun!)
Before the Individual Oral (IO) was introduced to the current Language and Literature course, students of the old course participated in an Individual Oral Commentary (IOC). Many readers will remember this. The IOC, like the IO, was a spoken assessment task and, for many students, quite daunting. During an IOC exam of yore, one of my students went silent. This happens, and not wanting to distract the student, I did...