Marking criteria: Individual speaking (Langblog)

For the ​individual speaking tasks​, you will be marked using the following criteria:

Individual speaking task

Task achievement, comprehensibility and pronunciation

Task achievement, comprehensibility and pronunciation take into account how well the finished work answers the task requirements, how
comprehensible the speaker is, and the speaker’s pronunciation and intonation.

Fluency and coherence

Fluency and coherence take into account how natural speaker sounds and hesitation. It also includes the use of linking words and other
linguistic devices to connect ideas (e.g. pronouns) to help the listener understand the speaker.

Language: Grammar and vocabulary

Grammar and vocabulary takes into account the variety and accuracy of grammatical structures and vocabulary the speaker uses.

PLEASE NOTE:

1. IF YOUR WORK DOES NOT SUFFICIENTLY ADDRESS THE TASK, YOUR MARK MAY BE LOWERED OR YOU MAY RECEIVE A
FAILING MARK FOR YOUR WORK.

2. ALL WORK SUBMITTED TO THE CLASSROOM MUST BE YOUR OWN. SEE THE WARNING ABOUT PLAGIARISM AND ORIGINALITY
OF YOUR WORK IN THE COURSE PLAN.
 Marking criteria: Individual speaking (Langblog)
Task achievement, comprehensibility and
pronunciation
9,10 ● Very good completion of task with no significant
A omissions and few irrelevancies
● Very easy to understand
● Pronunciation and intonation always very clear
and natural and these are used to emphasise
meaning and attitude
7, 8 ● Good completion of task with minor omissions
B ● Almost always easy to understand
● Pronunciation and intonation generally clear
and natural and although there may be some
errors, the meaning is clear
5, 6 ● Adequate completion of task but there may be
C+ some irrelevant information
● Generally easy to understand
● Pronunciation and intonation noticeably
influenced by first language, don’t always sound
natural and sometimes affect comprehension
3, 4 ● Inadequate completion of task with significant
C- parts not included in terms of content and/or
irrelevant information
● Difficult to understand
● Pronunciation and intonation strongly
influenced by first language, don’t sound
natural, generally impeding comprehension
0, 1, 2 ● Inadequate completion of task
D ● Almost always impossible to understand
● Inaccuracies in pronunciation and intonation
make speaker incomprehensible
Fluency and coherence
● Communicates spontaneously and naturally
● Occasional hesitation to search for expressions
● Uses a variety of cohesive devices efficiently and
accurately to connect ideas
● Produces long stretches of speech which are clear
● Occasional hesitation to search for patterns and
expressions with a few noticeably long pauses
● Uses some cohesive devices to link and connect
ideas
● Produces quite long stretches of continuous
speech
● Frequent long pauses
● Adequate use of some cohesive devices to link
ideas
● Produces some short sentences
● Very noticeable hesitation
● Links groups of words only with simple linking
words such as “and”, “but” and “because”
● Very short, isolated words and expressions
● Very long pauses to search for expressions
● No use of linking expressions
Language: Grammar and vocabulary
● Accurate use and wide variety of basic grammatical structures
and vocabulary
● Some complex grammatical structures used successfully
● Use of synonyms to avoid repetition
● Occasional minor errors
● Good use and variety of basic grammatical structures
● Some complex grammatical structures used but not always
successfully
● Some use of synonyms but some repetition
● Adequate use of grammatical structures and vocabulary to
complete the task
● May use complex grammatical structures but errors make the
speaker difficult to understand at times
● Adequate range of vocabulary but some repetition and basic
errors
● Frequent basic grammatical errors which make speaker difficult
to understand
● Minimal vocabulary to complete the task and major errors make
speaker generally difficult to understand
● Insufficient vocabulary and grammatical structures to complete
the task