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 Speaking & Listening Assessment Middle School

 

Collaboration/Planning

Delivery

Structure

Content

Register

Reflection

A

Excellent contribution to planning

 

Highly effective research skills

 

Leading role in discussion leading to more complex speculation/analysis

 

Sensitive response to others’ contributions

Confident delivery

 

Expressive voice

 

Clear diction

 

Very varied effective tone

 

Highly effective body language

Excellent sense of needs of audience

 

Highly effective organisation of material

 

Clear effective introduction

 

Very clear stages of argument

 

Highly effective conclusion

Excellent choice of varied, creative material. Very effectively engages and sustains interest of audience

 

Very effectively achieves its stated purposes

 

Perceptive anal others’ techniques

 

Ideas v effectively supported by well chosen examples

Excellent variety of syntax

 

Highly varied but appropriate vocabulary

 

Assured and fluent use of Standard English

Perceptively & critically evaluates own strengths & weaknesses

 

Devises clear appropriate targets & strategies for improvement

B

Good contribution to planning

 

Effective research skills

 

Good contribution to discussion & group analysis task

 

Awareness of others’ contributions

Generally confident delivery

 

Clear diction

 

Varied effective tone

 

Effective body language

Good sense of needs of audience

 

Effective organisation of material

 

Clear introduction

 

Clear stages of argument

 

Effective conclusion

Good choice of varied, creative material Engages and sustains interest of audience

 

Achieves its stated purposes

 

Good anal others’ techniques

 

Ideas supported by well chosen examples

Good variety of syntax,

 

Generally varied vocabulary

 

Use of Standard English

Shows awareness of own strengths & weaknesses

 

Shows awareness of how s/he can improve

C

Some contribution to planning

 

Some research done

 

Some contribution to discussion

 

Awareness of others’ contributions

Generally confident delivery

 

Reasonably clear diction

 

Varied tone

 

Varied body language

Some sense of needs of audience

 

Some organisation of material

 

Introduction

 

Some demarcated stages of argument & conclusion

Varied material.Generally interests audience

 

Achieves some of its stated purposes

 

Awareness other’s techniques

 

Some use of examples

 

 

 

 

Use of Standard English

Shows some awareness of own strengths & weaknesses

D

Little contribution to planning

Little research done

 

Little contribution to discussion

 

Little awareness of others’ contributions

Not easy to hear

 

Monotonous tone

 

Poor body language

Little sense of needs of audience

 

Little organisation of material

 

No satisfactory Introduction

 

No conclusion

Little relevant material. Not interesting to audience

 

Achieves few of its purposes

 

Little awareness others’ techinques

 

Little use of examples

 

 

 

Grammatical errors & inappropriate vocabulary

Shows little awareness of own strengths & weaknesses

E

Little or no contribution to planning

Very Poor delivery

Very disorganised

Irrelevant material

Many errors grammar

Poor vocabulary

No awareness own weaknesses