Assessment of spoken interaction
« Existential » competence (savoir être) during interaction
Pays attention to the others
Takes notes when necessary
Intervenes when necessary
Speaks loud enough, clearly
Looks at his /her conversational partners
Uses appropriate gestures
A2
Pragmatic compétence : interaction strategies
Overall spoken interaction Can ask and answer
questions and exchange ideas
and information on familiar
topics ;
Can give a simple description
Or overall oral production or presentation of daily
routines, likes/dislikes,* as a
short series of simple phrases
and sentences linked in a list
* 1 or 2 phrases to express
likes / dislikes
Taking the floor (turn
taking)
Can use simple techniques to
start*, maintain or end a
short conversation.
Can initiate, maintain and
close simple, face-to-face
conversations.
* I’m going to talk about LA
Cooperating / asking for
clarification
Can indicate when he/she is
following. Can ask very
simply for repetition *when
he/she does not understand.
Can ask for clarification
about the key-words not
understood using stock
phrases.
 I don’t understand
 Can you repeat ?
Spoken fluency
Can make himself/herself
B1
Can deal with less routine
situations
Can express personal
opinions* and exchange
information on topics that are
familiar ; can express and
respond to feelings.*
* A few phrases to express
and respond to feelings
Can initiate, maintain and
close simple, face-to-face
conversations* on topics that
are familiar or of personal
interest.
Can intervene on a
discussion on a familiar
topic, using a suitable phrase
to get the floor.
 let’s talk about LA now
 to sum it up…
Can ask someone to clarify
what they have just said.*
Can repeat back what
someone has said to confirm
mutual understanding and
keep the development of
ideas on course. Can invite
others into the discussion.
* Some of the expressions
expressions presented in the
unit (sequence)
Can express himself/herself
Linguistic competences
Vocabulary
understood in short
contributions, even though
pauses*, false starts and
reformulation are evident.
* gap-fillers : er..
with relative ease. Can keep
going comprehensibly, even
though pausing for
grammatical and lexical
planning and repair is very
evident.
* Use of : well, you know,
what I mean is..
Has a sufficient vocabulary
for the expression of basic
communicative needs.
Can control a narrow
repertoire *dealing with
concrete everyday needs.
Has a sufficient vocabulary
to express himself/herself
with some circumlocutions.
Shows good control of
elementary vocabulary* but
major errors still occur when
expressing more complex
thoughts.
* lexical field of tourism + 2
or 3 adjectives to express
opinion
Grammar
Phonology
* lexical field of tourism + a
good number of adjectives to
express opinion
Uses simple structures
Uses reasonably accurately a
correctly, but still
repertoire of frequently used
systemetically makes basic
‘routines’ and patterns
mistakes-for example tends
associated with more
to mix up tenses and forget to predictable situations.
mark agreement.
Communicates with
Can link group of words with reasonable accuracy in
simple connectors like ‘and’, familiar contexts ; generally
‘but’ and ‘because’.
good control though* with
noticeable mother tongue
 Simple present
influence. Errors occur, but it
 I’d like to
is clear what he / she is
 imperative
trying to express.
* correct use of tenses and
modals
Pronunciation is generally
Pronunciation is clearly
clear enough to be
intelligible, even if a foreign
understood despite a
accent is sometimes evident
noticeable foreign accent, but and occasional
conversational partners will
mispronunciations occur.
need to ask for repetition
*occasional errors of
from time to time.
accentuation ;the intonation
is correct
* lots of errors of
accentuation and intonation