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    Band 4 (Excellent) 3 (Good) 2 (Poor) 1 (Very Poor) Criteria 1. Pronunciation (Stress)

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    Band 4 3 2 1

    Criteria (Excellent) (Good) (Poor) (Very Poor)


    1. Pronunciation (Stress) The speaker fluently The speaker appropriately The speaker demonstrates The speaker weakly
    demonstrates all the stress demonstrates the stress the stress placement of demonstrates the stress
    placement of words. placement of words but words with 4-5 errors. placement of words with 6
    has 2-3 errors. and above errors.

    The speaker proficiently The speaker sufficiently The speaker generally The speaker has lot of
    portrays the weak syllables shows the weak syllables portrays the weak syllables errors in portraying the
    of conjunctions and of conjunctions and in sentences with 4-5 weak syllables in
    prepositions in sentences. prepositions in sentences errors sentences with 6 and
    with 2-3 errors. above errors.

    2. Pronunciation (Rhythm) The speaker fully The speaker appropriately The speaker was able to The speaker failed to put
    demonstrates the rhythm demonstrates the rhythm portray some rhythm in any rhythm in his/her
    of his speech; the of his speech; prominence his/her speech but was not speech which made
    prominence is evidently to lexical words, strong enough to creates interest her/his speech too boring
    given to lexical words, to syllables of polysyllabic to the listener. to the listener.
    strong syllables of words, and to elements
    polysyllabic words, and to he/she wants to
    elements he/she wants to emphasize are slightly
    emphasize. Thus, her/his evident but still her/his
    speech melody creates speech melody was not
    interest to the listener. too dull to the listener.
    Pronunciation The speaker fluently The speaker appropriately The speaker can generally The speaker has lots of
    (Intonation) demonstrates all the demonstrates the demonstrate the mistakes towards the
    placement of rising and placement of rising and placement of rising and placement of rising and
    falling intonation in falling intonation in falling intonation in falling intonation in
    sentences. sentences. sentences. sentences which needs
    further improvement.
    Speaking Rate The speaker delivered The speaker delivered his The speaker delivers The speaker speaks too
    his/her speech comfortably speech smoothly in which his/her speech either slow fast or too slow. Lots of
    and intelligibly. His/her the listener can or fast. Further, pauses in pauses in his/her speech
    speech is not too fast nor comprehend her/his her/his speech was delivery was observed,
    too slow in which the speech. However, there observed. Thus, the and mostly his/her speech
    listener was able to are some pauses in his/her listener cannot understand sound monotonous in
    understand. speech. some of the speaker’s which the listener difficult
    speech. to the comprehend the
    speaker’s speech.
    Band 4 3 2 1
    Criteria (Excellent) (Good) (Poor) (Very Poor)
    Fluency The speaker can express The speaker can express The speaker was able to The speaker weakly
    herself/himself herself/himself fluently. express herself/himself but express herself/himself -
    spontaneously at length He/she can almost sometimes the speaker is long pauses is observe
    with a natural colloquial effortlessly articulate backtracking and due to lots of backtracking
    flow, the speaker can sounds and avoid articulating sounds of words, and difficulty of
    articulate sounds backtracking. However, wrongly. Hesitations and articulating sounds. Lots of
    proficiently, and able to hesitation and pauses are pauses are observed. hesitations and pauses are
    avoid backtracking. Thus, observed. observed.
    hesitation and pauses are
    hardly observed.
    Accuracy The speaker can employ The speaker can employ The speaker can generally Mostly, the speaker cannot
    the full range of the full range of use appropriate word and use appropriate word and
    phonological features of phonological features of sentence stress, rhythm, sentence stress, rhythm,
    English with a high level of English with sufficient level intonation and articulate and intonation; accents
    control in word and of control in word and sounds clearly; accents tends to be influenced by
    sentence stress, rhythm, sentence stress, rhythm, tends to be influenced by first language which has
    and intonation so that the and intonation to ensure first language but has little great effect on intelligibility.
    finer points of his/her intelligibility throughout. effect on intelligibility. Accuracy of the speaker
    message are clear and needs more improvement.
    precise.
    The speaker can articulate
    virtually all the sounds of
    Intelligibility and effective English; some features of
    conveyance of and accent retained from
    enhancement of meaning his/her first language may
    aren’t affected in any way be noticeable but it does
    by features of accent that not affect intelligibility.
    may be retained from the
    speaker’s first language.

    References
    TAEC Erasmus + project (2017-2020) EMI Handbook
    Retrieved from: https://cip.ku.dk/english/projects-and-collaborations/taec/TAEC_Handbook_FEB_2020_NoEdit.pdf

    IELTS (n.d.) SPEAKING: Band Descriptors (public version)


    Retrieved from: https://www.ielts.org/-/media/pdfs/speaking-band-descriptors.ashx?la=en

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