Low Advanced Speaking Rubric

SILP 2014 / Contextualized Speaking Assessment for Low Advanced Spanish

Categories Points
Task fulfillment and Sociolinguistic Competence. The speaker is able to:

  • use courtesy expressions, greetings, body language, register.
  • respond to the assigned functions (topics related to school, employment, leisure activities, current events and matters of public interest) with paragraph length and substance for the evaluator to apply the scoring criteria
-1 if not fulfilled

3 points for task fulfillment

Vocabulary. The speaker:

  • demonstrates an adequately broad vocabulary to address the topics / content assigned
  • handles with ease and confidence a large number of communicative tasks (topics related to school, employment, leisure activities, current events and matters of public interest).

 

3 points
Delivery. The speaker:

  • can be understood by a listener unaccustomed to dealing with non-native speakers.
  • has pronunciation that is sufficiently accurate within known words and phrases.
  • contributes to conversations on a variety of familiar topics with much accuracy, clarity and precision.
3 points
Structural control. The speaker:

  • can express herself in all major time frames with hardly any errors.
  • is aware of agreements (noun/adjective, subject/verb) and self-corrects.
3 points
Text-type. The speaker:

  • Uses connected discourse of paragraph length
  • Can formulate a variety of structurally accurate questions.
  • Describes, narrates and has a growing ability to express opinion.
3 points
TOTAL / 15***  

*** GRADE SCALE / A: 14-15 points; B: 12-13; C: 9-11; D: below 9

Task fulfillment: Rate according to how well the overall task was fulfilled:  1: Very limited / 2: Adequate / 3: Excellent.

Vocabulary: 1: Very limited / 2: Adequate / 3: Excellent.

Delivery: 1: Unclear for a sympathetic learner; 2: Relatively clear to a sympathetic learner; 3: Comprehensible to those NOT used to listening to non-native speaker, but with occasional structural or pronunciation errors that do not impede communication.

Structural control: 1: very limited/ no control; 2: Adequate control; 3: Extensive control.

Text type: 1. Minimal sentence level control and variation; 2: Adequate sentence-level control and variation: 3: Loosely structured paragraphs with some cohesive devices and supporting detail (quality and quantity of language).