Formative and authentic evaluation of storytelling

This paper presents research results "Discourses and evaluative practices in the language classroom: A case study". Discussions about authentic and formative evaluation designed to encourage understanding of the processes of teaching and learning oral skills in the classroom. It aims to promote understanding of discursive processes; cooperative work efforts and narration in basic education students, through stories. The methodological design corresponds to the case study and its object is speeches and evaluation practices of four teachers of Spanish. Instruments were used as document analysis, audio and video recordings, observations of class participants and written records, among others. For evaluation were used: checklists and rubrics in self-assessment and peer assessment situations. The development of the research helped validate the authentic formative assessment of oral work as a teaching guide, systematic, to improve oral narrative skills of students and as a tool for analysis of their learning.