1 Speech halting and uneven with long pauses or incomplete thoughts. There is a lot of hesitation and stopping, and sometimes the student does not complete thoughts or may leave a long period of silence after a very short response. There are mostly complete thoughts with significant pauses as the student searches for words to complete the thoughts or there may be a long period of silence after a short response. Some hesitation but manages to continue and complete thoughts. The student completes nearly all thoughts but has some pauses.
Speech flows naturally most of the time.
4 Speech continuous with few pauses or stumbling. The speech demonstrates ease and comfort with the language and any pausing is natural. Pronunciation This domain measures pronunciation as it affects communication. This domain measures the effectiveness of the communication of the message exclusively based on pronunciation. Communication of the whole message is measured in the comprehensibility domain.