Assessment criteria
Fluency and
Coherence
Excellent
Good
Developing
Lexical
resource
Grammatical
range and
accuracy
- speaks at
- uses
- develop
length without vocabulary
sentences with
loss of
resource
a wide range
coherence
flexibly to
of structures
- develop
discuss topics flexibly
topics
- paraphrase
- produces
coherently and effectively
error-free
appropriately
sentences
- maintains
- uses a wide
- basic
flow of speech enough
sentence with
- willing to
vocabulary to reasonable
speak at
discuss
accuracy
length
familiar topics - frequently
produces
error-free
sentences
-occasionally
grammatical
mistakes and
may able to
self-correct
- speaks with
- is able to
- uses basic
long pauses
talk about
sentence
- gives simple familiar topic forms with
responses
but with
more frequent
simple
grammatical
vocabulary or errors
make errors
in word
choice
Pronunciation
- effortless to
understand
- can generally be
understood
throughout,
mispronunciations
do not impede
understanding
- more frequent
mispronunciations