1.

Fluency and Coherence

This refers to how good the candidate is at keeping talking at the right speed and
how good they are at connecting their ideas together. This is a fairly general
criteria which includes evaluating the relevance of the candidate's answers, but in
terms of the elements we have identified in part 1 of this article, it refers to the
speaker's need to be able to understand and follow the rules of language at a
word, sentence and text level.
2. Lexical Resource
This refers to how much vocabulary the candidate has and how well they use it. As
well as the rules of language at a word level, this criteria considers the
communicative functions of speech and the social meaning of speech.
3. Grammatical Range and Accuracy
This refers to how many structures the candidate has and how well they use them.
Again, as well as the rules of language, this criteria considers the communicative
functions of speech.
4. Pronunciation
This refers to how well the candidate pronounces the language. As well as
considering the communicative effect of the candidate's pronunciation, there is
evaluation of how much strain it causes on a listener, and how noticeable their
accent is - although accent itself is not a problem. In terms of the elements we
have identified in part 1 of this article, this criteria refers to Speakers need to be
able to produce the phonological features of speech.