Assessment can be used to find out the strengths and weaknesses of the learning
process in which students can make the revision, change and modification after identifying
the information. In fact there are many students who assess their speaking using differences
ways and criteria. This condition is interesting for knowing what criteria and ways do
students usually use to assess their speaking performance. Therefore, the researcher wanted to
find out how do students assess their speaking ability and what criteria do students usually
use to assess their speaking ability.
This research is conducted through questionnaire to forty students and interview to
twenty students of 2017 and 2018 English Education Department of UIN Antasari
Banjarmasin who have taken Language Testing and Evaluation and speaking III lessons. The
researcher used qualitative analysis and design of descriptive method. The data were
analyzed using Miles and Huberman’s theory that consists of three main steps: data
reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing and verification.
The resulting data revealed the most ways that students use in assessment speaking
are role-play, discussion and conversation, question and answer, directed response tasks, and
games. In addition, another ways that some students use are interview, picture-cued tasks,
recorded monologues, and live monologues. Besides, the result showed that there are four
criteria that students use in assessment their speaking skill. There are pronunciation, fluency,
vocabulary, and accuracy. Additionally, some students said comprehension is one of criteria
that they use in assessment speaking.