IELTS speaking assessment criteria

IELTS speaking assessment criteria

This section is a face-to-face conversation between candidate and the examiner. Each of these categories will be awarded equal weight-age and these scores will be averaged to provide a final band score for the speaking module

  • • Fluency and coherence
  • • Lexical resource
  • • Grammatical range and accuracy
  • • Pronunciation
  • Fluency & Coherence

    This refers to how good the candidate is at keeping talking at the right speed, natural pauses and how good they are at connecting their ideas together. It refers to the speaker's need to be able to understand and follow the rules of language at a word, sentence and text level.

  • Lexical Recourses

    This refers to how much vocabulary the candidate has and how well they use it. As well as the rules of language at a word level. This criterion considers the communicative functions of speech and the social meaning of speech.

  • Grammatical Range & Accuracy

    This refers to how many structures the candidate has and how well they use them. Again, as well as the rules of language. This criterion considers the communicative functions of speech.

  • Pronunciation

    This refers to how well the candidate pronounces the language. As well as considering the communicative effect of the candidate's pronunciation, there is evaluation of how much strain it causes on a listener, and how noticeable their accent is - although accent itself is not a problem.

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The IELTS measures the language proficiency of person who wants to study, work or migrate English speaking country. It uses a nine-band scale to clearly identify levels of proficiency, from non-user

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