SPEAKING RUBRICS – SPEAKING
Part 1: Social interaction (25%)
Part 2: Topic Development (40%)
Part 3: Follow-up discussion (35%)
Students are assessed on their own individual performance and not in relation to each other, according to the
following four analytical criteria: Grammar and vocabulary, pronunciation, discourse management, and
communication strategies.
CRITERIA 0.5 - Inadequate 1.0 – Needs 1.5 – Meets expectation 2.0 – Exceeds
improvement expectations
1. Grammar - Uses only basic, simple - Uses limited - Uses varied vocabulary - Uses appropriate
and vocabulary and vocabulary and and expressions and makes expressions and a wide
Vocabulary expressions. expressions and makes only few errors in word range of vocabulary
- Sometimes uses frequent errors in word choice learned in and out of class.
inadequate vocabulary, choice. - Uses a variety of - Uses many different
which hinders the student - Does not try to expand sentence structures but structures depending on
from responding vocabulary and makes some errors contexts with only a few
properly. expressions. grammatical errors
- Uses only basic - Uses basic structures
structures and makes with only few errors
frequent errors - Attempt to use a variety
of structures but make
frequent errors.
2. - Frequent problems with - Pronunciation, rhythm - Pronunciation, rhythm Pronunciation, rhythm and
Pronunciation pronunciation and and intonation errors and intonation are almost intonation are almost
intonation. sometimes make it clear and accurate, but always clear and accurate
- Voice is too quiet to difficult to understand only occasionally difficult
hear. the student to understand
- Hard to understand
3. Discourse - Only short utterances - Attempts are made to - Long utterances are - Students can produce
Management with isolated words and produce longer frequently produced with extended stretches of
phrases are made. utterances, but some repetition. language despite some
- Only a few basic sometimes - Most basic cohesive hesitation, which does not
cohesive devices are inappropriately. devices are used impede comprehensibility.
used but repeated. - There is some effectively with minor - Attempts are made to use
- Frequent hesitation hesitation, but this does errors. more complex cohesive
impedes not always affect - Hesitation does not devices, sometimes
comprehensibility. comprehensibility. impede comprehensibility. inappropriately.
- Links only basic - Topics partly - Utterances are mostly - Develops topic fully and
sentences; breakdown of developed; not always relevant to the questions / coherently with little
coherence evident concluded logically topics. repetition and hesitation
- Produce simple speech - Most information is
fluently, but loses linked coherently with
coherence in complex clear development despite
communication some hesitation and
repetition.
4. Interactive - Ideas and purpose is not - Tries to communicate, - Focus on the - Give clear ideas.
communication clear; usually does not but sometimes doesn’t conversation most of the - Communicates
respond appropriately or respond appropriately. time and communicate effectively; almost always
clearly and as a result, Sometimes ideas are not effectively; generally responds appropriately.
needs a lot of help clear and hard to responds appropriately and - Keep the conversation
communicating. understand tries to develop the going by asking follow-up
interaction questions.
