Appendix 3 B2 Level Speaking Assessment Scale

COMMUNICATIVE IMPACT GRAMMAR AND COHERENCE VOCABULARY SOUNDS‚ STRESS‚ INTONATION

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vocabulary...
7 •makes entirely natural hesitations when •uses wide range of structures •has wide range •is understood with ease
searching for ideas •uses accurate grammar •is fully appropriate •uses accurate and appropriate sounds and
•participates with ease without requiring •makes fully coherent stress
additional prompting contributions •uses a wide range of intonation to convey
•contributes fully and effectively to the meaning effectively
communication
6
5 •makes mostly natural hesitations when •uses adequate range of structures •has appropriate range •is understood easily with isolated difficulties
searching for ideas •makes occasional minor mistakes •is generally appropriate •uses mostly accurate and appropriate sounds
•equires no additional prompting only with isolated and stress
•in general contributes effectively to the •makes adequately coherent inappropriacies •uses an adequate range of intonation to
communication contributions convey meaning mostly effectively
4
3 •often makes hesitations in order to search •uses limited range of structures •has sufficient but •is understood with some strain
for language •makes occasional major and somewhat limited range •makes mistakes in sounds and stress that
•in general requires no additional prompting minor mistakes •is generally appropriate occasionally affect comprehensibility
•contributes sufficiently to the •makes mostly coherent with occasional disturbing •uses a limited range of intonation to convey
communication‚ occasionally making contributions with occasional inappropriacies meaning
irrelevant contributions inconsistencies
2
1 •frequently makes intrusive hesitations when •uses very limited range of •has limited range •is understood with constant strain
searching for language structures •is frequently •makes mistakes in sounds and stress that
•requires some additional prompting •makes occasional major and inappropriate seriously affect comprehensibility
•frequently makes irrelevant contributions or frequent minor mistakes •makes little use of intonation to convey
contributes little to the communication •makes mainly incoherent meaning at all
contributions
0 •no assessable language •no assessable language •no assessable language •no assessable language