ASSESSING SPEAKING & PRINCIPLES OF ASSESSING

Produce differences among English phonemes and allophonic variants.

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Produce English stress patterns, words in stressed and unstressed positions, rhythmic structure, and intonation contours.

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Produce fluent speech at different rates of delivery.

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Produce speech in natural constituents: in appropriate phrases, pause groups, breath groups, and sentence constituents.

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Use appropriate styles, registers, implicature, redundancies, pragmatic conventions, conversation rules, floor-keeping and -yielding, inte'rrupting, and other sociolinguistic features in face-to-face conversations.

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Develop and use a battery of speaking strategies, such as emphasizing key words, rephrasing, providing a context for interpreting the meaning of words, appealing for help, and accurately assessing how well your interlocutor is understanding you.

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• It is a phonetic level, but also prosodic, lexical, and gramatical properties may be included in the criterion performance.

• What's the level or Speaking performance?

• Speakers must be aware of semantic properties, minimal interaction with interlocutor or test administrator. What's the level or Speaking performance?

It  involves short conversations, standard greetings, and simple requests, with a spoken prompt to maintain authenticity and follow-up questions or retorts.

What's the level of Speaking Performance?

• Interactions can be transactional (Exchange specific information) or interpersonal (maintaining social relationships). What's the level of Speaking Performance?