Oral Assessment Sheet
Unit: 2
Assignment: 1
Student: Salgueiro, Yanina
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Fluency
Virtually native-speaker speed and rhythm.
Good fluency with minimal hesitation.
Some hesitation, but speech is easy to follow.
Frequent hesitation, which makes speech difficult to follow.
Hesitation makes speech virtually impossible to follow.
Not capable of connected speech.
Grammatical accuracy
Virtually native-speaker accuracy over a wide range of structures. Few -if anyerrors of any kind.
Few errors even in complex structures. No basic errors.
Structures adequately controlled and varied. Few -if any- basic errors.
Structures adequate but limited in range and with basic errors not infrequent.
Frequent basic errors.
No awareness of basic grammatical functions.
Pronunciation (sentences)
Virtually native-speaker stress/timing, rhythm, and placing of stress, intonation
patterns and range of pitch within sentence; natural linking of phrases.
Stress-timing, rhythm, placing of stress, intonation, etc. sufficiently native-like as to
make comprehension easy and listening pleasurable.
Stress-timing, rhythm, placing of stress, intonation, etc. sufficiently controlled.
Spanish pronunciation patterns make speech occasionally difficult to understand.
Spanish pronunciation patterns severely impede comprehension.
Not intelligible, through faulty stress and intonation.
Pronunciation (individual sounds)
All individual sounds virtually as a native speaker.
Most individual sounds virtually as a native speaker.
All sounds sufficiently correct, can be understood without difficulty.
Some individual sounds poorly articulated so that comprehension is sometimes
difficult.
Individual sounds so poor that comprehension is often impossible.
Unintelligible.
Communication level
Wholly effective at communicating ideas/points of view.
Communicates ideas/points of view effectively and with ease, experiencing only
occasional difficulty.
Communicates ideas/points of view effectively, though experiencing some difficulty.
Communicates ideas/points of view fairly effectively.
Communicates ideas/points of view poorly.
Communicates nothing.
Vocabulary Level
Wide-ranging, varied, precise, and appropriate.
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Shows few vocabulary gaps.
Adequate.
Vocabulary -though adequate- seldom rises above the mundane.
Lack of vocabulary makes performance inadequate.
Vocabulary too slight for communication at this level.
Dear Yanina
Your overall work is fine, your pronunciation is controlled most of the time but
sometimes you tend to repeat the same ideas, even using the same words, over and over
again. Try to avoid doing this by using synonyms and by checking that you expose a
range of different ideas and points of view, or examples. This way, your speaking
presentation won’t be monotonous.
I jot down the following mistakes for you to revise:
 Check the pronunciation of the following words: idiosyncrasy, culture,
traditions, especially, vital, jokes, foreign, adjust, example, inform, explanation,
determine, age, education, transferable
 Check the meaning and usage of the word “idiosyncrasy” because it is not
appropriately used in this context.
 “They are not funny to me” should be “they’re not funny for me”
 “Not all cultures share the same …culture “ try to avoid repetition. This
utterance does not make sense.
 “some jokes are not funny when telling by people of different cultures” should
have been said “some jokes aren’t funny when they are told by people..” as it is
a passive structure, be careful.
 “Even could there be misunderstanding” should have been “there could be
misunderstandings”
 “It is very useful learn the gestures “ should have been “ it is very useful to learn
…” as this is the correct collocation in this case.
 “For instance” is not a synonym of “for example” so be careful when you use it.
 “We may use accidentally common expressions” should be better expressed if
you use the adverb either at the very beginning or at the end.
 “What I can tell is that ….” Should have been “I can tell you that “
 “It is probably that he doesn’t know …” you should use an adjective here, not an
adverb. In this case “probable” is correct.
 “We have to be inform about ..” again it is a passive construction that requires a
verb in its participle form, in this case “informed”
 “Some jokes that they say are not …” should be better expressed as “some of the
jokes they tell aren’t ….”
 “Mathew Perry said is like …” should have been “he said that it is like …”
 “Humour is influence by culture” again a passive construction that requires its
verb in participle form , in this case “influenced”
Please, Yanina, go over these mistakes, find them in the recording and practise saying
them in the correct way so as to fix them. There are some mistakes that are basic for our
level and must be avoided by now. As this is a recorded assignment, you have the
opportunity to check pronunciation and collocations with your dictionary before you
record yourself, at least check your key words. Take advantage of it! There is a lot of
work to be done. Go ahead!
Please, write to me if in doubt, I´ll be more than glad to help you.
Pass
Cecilia