kanpur with an aim to help students acquire proficiency in speaking and listening skills by the time they leave school central board of secondary education cbse has organized a twoday training programme for teachers at sir padampat singhania education center on wednesday the workshop guided the english subject teachers to take oral examinations more than 140 teachers of around 60 different schools of the city took part in the workshop cbse in an effort to modify its assessment of language and oral skills among teachers will be organizing workshops in each city the board had introduced the assessment of speaking and listening asl skills previous year as a way to make the language and oral testing more detailed and at par with international testing standards asl has been introduced in all cbseaffiliated schools this system is applicable to class ix and x as part of the continuous and comprehensive evaluation since 201213 academic session kanta vadhera examiner trainer at cbse new delhi and english expert prachi agarwal addressed the teachers during the workshop the coordinators informed that as per the curriculum document for secondary schools there is a provision of 20 marks weightage for assessing asl in class 9 and 11 examiner trainers will be responsible for skill assessment training in their respective schools the cbse coordinators praised the city teachers for their command in english classroom management techniques listening and speaking skills were also shared with the teachers during workshop the teachers also cleared their doubts pertaining to the activity in the class room