IELTS Speaking Criteria and Band Description

What are the four Criteria of the IELTS Speaking?

• 1. 1. Fluency and coherence, 2. Lexical resources, 3. Vocabular, and 4. Pronunciation

• 2. 1. Fluency and coherence, 2. Lexical resources, 3. Organization, and 4. Pronunciation

• 3. 1. Fluency and coherence, 2. Lexical resources, 3. Grammartical range and accuracy, and 4. Pronunciation

• 1. 1. Fluency, 2. Coherence and cohesion, 3. Grammatical range and accuracy, and 4. Pronunciation

Are the four criteria equally important in achieving a good band score?

• Yes, they are equally important.

• No, Pronunication is the most important.

• No. Fluency affects 50 % of the total score.

• Two criteria (Fluency and pronunciation) are more important.

What does Fluency mean?

• the ability to talk very quickly

• the ability to link ideas and language together to form coheren, connected speech

• the ability to talk slowly

• the ability to talk with normal levels of continuity, rate and effort

What does the word "Coherence" mean?

• the ability to talk with normal levels of continuity, rate and effort

• the ability to link ideas and language together to form coherent, conected speech

• the ability of speech continuity

• the ability to use variety of words

Key indicitors of fluency are

• Logical sequencing and speech rate

• clear marking and speech continuity

• use of cohesive devices and speech continuity

• speech rate and speech continuity

Key indicators of coherence are

• logical sequencing of spoken sentences

• clear marking (with appropriate use of pausing, and spoken discourse markers and fillers) of stages in a discussion

• relevance of spoken sentences to the general purpose of a turn

• use of cohesive devices within and between spoken sentences (e.g. logical connectors, pronouns, conjuctions)

• All of the above

Key indicators of coherence are

• logical sequencing of spoken sentences

• clear marking (with appropriate use of pausing, and spoken discourse markers and fillers) of stages in a discussion

• relevance of spoken sentences to the general purpose of a turn

• use of cohesive devices within and between spoken sentences (e.g. logical connectors, pronouns, conjuctions)

• All of the above

Choose the correct statement.

• Speech rate must be very fast.

• Speech rate must be slow.

• Speech rate is ideally, not too slow (hard to keep links between words/ prepositons in mind

• Talking quickly is the most matter in speech rate.

Lexical resource means

• Fluency

• Coherence

• Pronunciation

• range of vocabulary

Which is not a key indicator of lexical resource?

• variety of words used

• adequacy and appropriacy of vocabulary

• formal style of the word

• range of sentence structures

• idiomatic expressions