WorksheetsVSTEP Speaking Rating Scales
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
[GRAMMAR] Show some attempts to use complex sentences but make many errors.
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[GRAMMAR] Shows only limited control of a few simple grammatical structures and sentence patterns in a learnt repertoire.
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[GRAMMAR] Non-systematic errors may occur with instances of self-correction.
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[GRAMMAR] Uses flexibly and accurately simple structures and shows a good control of complex structures.
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[VOCABULARY] Only uses a basic vocabulary repertoire of isolated words and phrases related to particular concrete topics.
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[VOCABULARY] Has some difficulty with unfamiliar topics and makes many lexical errors.
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[VOCABULARY] Attempts to use a few less common words and idiomatic expressions.
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[VOCABULARY] Uses appropriate vocabulary and can control a narrow repertoire dealing with familiar situations.
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[PRONUNCIATION] Is often unintelligible
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[PRONUNCIATION] Show some efforts in word stress despite frequent mispronunciations.
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[PRONUNCIATION] Generally places word stress, but does not show efforts with sentence stress.
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[PRONUNCIATION] Generally places word and sentence stress. Shows good efforts with intonation.
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[FLUENCY] Can only manage very short, isolated words and phrases, mainly learnt utterances, with much pausing.
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[FLUENCY] Produces extended responses using simple structures.
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[FLUENCY] Produces extended stretches of language with rare repetition and self-correction.
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[FLUENCY] Deals with familiar and unfamiliar topics with relative ease; hesitation may occur for grammatical and lexical planning but not too noticeable.
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[DISCOURSE MANAGEMENT] Hardly expresses or develop his/her ideas.
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[DISCOURSE MANAGEMENT] Relevantly responds to questions and can develop ideas in a simple list of points. Links ideas with some simple connectors, but repetition is still common.
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[DISCOURSE MANAGEMENT] Uses more complex connectors to link his/her utterances but fails to mark clearly the relationships between ideas.
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[DISCOURSE MANAGEMENT] Generally coherently develops ideas with elaborated details and examples and can round off with an appropriate conclusion.
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