4 points - Responses readily comprehensible, requiring no interpretation on the part of the listener Any sympathetic listener should be able to understand all of the response without pausing. Return to top of page Return to Level 1 Speaking Tasks - Analytic Rubric Fluency and Pronunciation reflect the delivery of the message. Each of these domains should be rated independently. This domain measures the ease with which the speaker delivers the message. The student completes nearly all thoughts but has some pauses.
Speech flows naturally most of the time.
4 points - Speech continuous with few pauses or stumbling The speech demonstrates ease and comfort with the language and any pausing is natural. This domain measures pronunciation as it affects communication. Communication of the whole message is measured in the comprehensibility domain. The evaluation of this domain in not based on the number of errors but rather on how the quality of the pronunciation facilitates or impedes the communication of the message. Speech is so strongly influenced by first language that message is often incomprehensible.