Assessmen of Speaking and Listening

Marking Parameters for Public Spe

Interaction 1 2

Contributions are mainly unrelated Contributions are often unrelated

to those of other speakers to those of the other speaker

Shows hardly any initiative in the Generally passive in the

development of conversation development of conversation

Very limited interaction

Insufficient accuracy in
Frequently unintelligible
Pronunciation pronunciation; many grammatical
articulation
errors

Communication is severely affected Frequent phonological errors

Major communication problems

Usually fluent; produces simple

Fluency & Coherence Noticeably/ long pauses; rate of speech fluently, but loses
coherence in complex
communication

Often hesitates and/or resorts to

Speech is slow slow speech

Frequent repetition and/or self- Topics partly developed; not

correction always concluded logically

Links only basic sentences;

breakdown of coherence evident

Demonstrates almost no flexibility, Communicates with limited

Vocabulary & Grammar and mostly struggles for flexibility and appropriacy on most
appropriate words of the topics

Complex forms and sentence

Uses very basic vocabulary to structures are rare; exhibits
express view- points. limited vocabulary to express new
ideas
arameters for Public Speaking
3 4 5

Develops interaction
Can initiate & logically develop
adequately, makes however
Interaction is adequately initiated simple conversation on familiar
minimal effort to initiate
topics
conversation

Needs constant prompting to

and develop Can take turns appropriately
take turns

Can take turn but needs little

prompting

Largely correct pronunciation &

Mostly correct pronunciation & clear Can pronounce correctly &
clear articulation except
articulation articulate clearly
occasional errors

Some expressions cause stress

without compromising with Can be clearly understood most of the Is always comprehensible; uses
understanding of spoken time; very few phonological errors appropriate intonation
discourse.

Is willing to speak at length, Speaks without noticeable effort, with Speaks fluently almost with no
however repetition is noticeable a little repetition repetition & minimal hesitation

Demonstrates hesitation to find words

Hesitates and/or self corrects; Develops topic fully &
occasionally loses coherence or use correct grammatical structures coherently
and/or self-correction

Topics mainly developed, but

Topics not fully developed to merit
usually not logically concluded

Can express with some

Communicates with limited
flexibility and appropriacy on
most of the topics
flexibility and appropriacy on a
Can express with some flexibility and variety of topics such as family,
appropriacy on most of the topics
hobbies, work, travel and
current events

Sometimes uses complex forms Demonstrates ability to use complex Frequently uses complex forms
and sentence structures; has forms and sentence structures most of and sentence structures; has
limited vocabulary to describe/ the time; expresses with adequate enough vocabulary to express
express new points vocabulary himself/ herself
 Assessment of Speaking
Fluency &
Name of the Candidate Interaction Pronunciation Coherence
Vocabulary &
Grammar