Speaking Feature

Uses the relevant grammatical structures and vocabulary, e.g. past simple to answer the questions, what did you do last night?

• Utterance

• Control

• Range

• Appropriacy

Describes speech which can generally be understood by a non EFL/ESL specialist, even if the speaker has a strong and/or unfamiliar accent

• Utterance

• Phonological Features

• Intelligible

• Stress

Instances when the interlocutor repeats the questions / instructions, uses back up questions, and/or gestures to materials

• Help

• Prompting

• Exchanges

• Support

The use of language that fits the context of the given task, e.g. collocation, verb usage, specific vocabulary related to the context

• Appropriacy

• Range

• Control

• Intelligible

Instances when candidate helps another candidate, e.g. by providing a word they are looking for during a discussion activity, repeating a question or statement their partner doesn't understand.

• Control

• Prompting

• Exchange

• Support

Aspects of pronunciation such as individual sounds, word and sentence stress, and intonation

• Utterance

• Intelligible

• Range

• Phonological Features

Brief interaction which typically involves two turns in the form of an initiation and responses, e.g. question-answer, suggestion and disagreement

• Prompting

• Support

• Pair talk

• Exchanges

A spoken word, phrase, sentence, question or longer stretch of language

• Sentence

• Utterance

• Stress

• Support

The emphasis laid on a syllable or word

• Tone

• Stress

• Appropriacy

• Intensifier

Able to use grammar accurately and appropriately

• Control

• Range

• Appropriacy

• Support