OET Speaking Checklist 1
Use this checklist to assess your own performance.
Linguistic Criteria
Criterion
Intelligibility
Self-assessment checklist
Is it easy to understand you?
Have you used stress, intonation and rhythm (pausing and chunking) effectively?
Fluency
Is your rate of speech appropriate?
Is your flow of speech appropriate?
Appropriateness
of Language
Is your register appropriate?
Is your tone appropriate?
Is your vocabulary appropriate?
Have you explained technical matters in lay terms?
Resources of
Grammar and
Expression
Is your range of grammar sufficient to communicate effectively?
Is your range of vocabulary sufficient to communicate effectively?
Have you paraphrased effectively?
Have you used idiomatic expressions accurately?
OET Speaking Checklist 2
Use this checklist to assess your own performance..
Clinical Communication Criteria
Criterion
Relationship
Building
Self-assessment checklist
Did you:
initiate the interaction appropriately?
demonstrate an attentive and respectful attitude?
adopt a non-judgemental approach?
show empathy for feelings/predicament/emotional state?
Understanding
& Incorporating
the Patient’s
Perspective
elicit and explore the patient’s ideas/concerns/expectations?
Providing
Structure
sequence the interview purposefully and logically?
pick up the patient’s cues?
relate explanations to elicited ideas/concerns/expectations?
signpost changes in topic?
use organizing techniques in explanations?
Information
Gathering
facilitate the patient’s narrative with active listening techniques, minimizing interruption?
use initially open questions, appropriately moving to closed questions?
avoid using compound questions/leading questions?
clarify statements which were vague or needed amplification?
summarise information to encourage correction/invite further information?
Information
Giving
establish initially what the patient already knows?
pause periodically when giving information, using the response to guide the next steps?
encourage the patient to contribute reactions/feelings?
check whether the patient understood information?
discover what further information the patient needed?
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