Area Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Very Good Excellent 1 - 4 5 - 6 7 8 - 9 10 Grammar Very limited Insufficient Adequate range of A wide range of Great range of range of range, basic structures structures used structures, tenses, lack tense and sufficiently appropriately; appropriate and of precise use simple syntax appropriate, good complex consistent use of of structures attempt to use complex grammatical complex prepositions predominate grammatical forms. forms used with grammatical and other heavily over ease. forms. grammatical complex use of Grammar is forms, word grammatical sufficiently accurate Low occurrence Minimal order mistakes forms. to convey intended of inaccuracies. occurrence of occur meanings; occasional minor frequently. Frequent signs traces of fossilized Sound evidence inaccuracies. of fossilized incorrect usage. of newly Signs of incorrect acquired Excellent ability consistent usage, Satisfactory knowledge. to apply newly incorrect occasional demonstration of newly acquired usage of misuse of acquired knowledge. knowledge. grammatical tense and forms; errors prepositions obscure and other meaning. grammatical forms in Little common evidence of expressions. newly acquired knowledge. Insufficient evidence of newly acquired knowledge. Vocabulary Very limited Insufficient Adequate range A wide range Great range, range, lack of range, basic sufficiently used appropriate and precise use of vocabulary appropriate, good appropriately; consistent use of vocabulary or predominates, attempt to use specific, specific, complex idiomatic little use of specific, complex complex and/or and/or idiomatic expressions. specific, and/or idiomatic idiomatic expressions, complex and/or expressions. expressions used creative and Signs of idiomatic with ease. imaginative way consistent expressions. Sufficiently accurate of choosing incorrect usage with occasional Low occurrence words. usage, misuse Frequent signs minor of inaccuracies. of words in of fossilized errors/fossilizations. Minimal common incorrect Sound evidence occurrence of expressions. usage, Satisfactory of newly minor occasional demonstration of newly acquired inaccuracies. Little misuse of acquired knowledge knowledge evidence of words in (specific terms, (specific terms, Excellent ability newly acquired common collocations, phrasal collocations, to apply newly knowledge expressions. verbs, etc). phrasal verbs, acquired (specific etc). knowledge terms, Insufficient (specific terms, collocations, evidence of collocations, phrasal verbs, newly acquired phrasal verbs, etc). knowledge etc). (specific terms, collocations, phrasal verbs, etc). Pronunciation Noticeable L1 Noticeable L1 Some traces of L1 No noticeable Solid mastering accent which accent which accent which may put strain on the of English puts a strain often puts a some strain on the listener in rhythm, no on the strain on the listener; indistinct terms of L1 occurrence of listener; listener; pronunciation of accent; mispronunciation. indistinct frequent certain words and mispronunciation pronunciation indistinct phrases only. of individual Intonation, of words and pronunciation words is linking and weak phrases most of words and Mostly correct use of exceptional. forms used of the time. phrases. intonation; some naturally and attempt at linking and Appropriate use with ease at all Completely Incorrect use weak forms. of various times. incorrect use of intonation; intonation of intonation; limited Most problematic patterns; very All sounds in non-existent attempt at sounds for Czech good linking and almost all linking and linking and speakers pronounced weak forms. situations weak forms. weak forms. correctly but there pronounced are still some sounds All sounds correctly; no All Most which need pronounced problems with problematic problematic improvement; correctly with word stress, even sounds for sounds for occasional errors in occasional difficult words Czech speakers Czech speakers word stress. errors; no are mostly consistently mispronounced; problems with well-stressed. mispronounced; high word stress high occurrence of except for some occurrence of words with difficult words. words with misused stress misused stress pattern. pattern. ORAL ASSESSMENT SCALE Area Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Very Good Excellent 1 - 4 5 - 6 7 8 - 9 10 Discourse Irrelevant and Mostly Generally Mostly relevant Always relevant Management inadequate irrelevant and relevant and and adequate and adequate contributions inadequate adequate contributions, contributions, at all times, contributions, contributions, coherent – coherent – mostly lacking often lacking coherent – discourse discourse coherence. coherence. discourse mostly developed developed developed consistently Contributions Contributions adequately. effectively. and mostly often incomplete effectively. incomplete and or choppy with Contributions Length of extremely short frequent generally contributions LenLength of with frequent hesitations in appropriate in mostly contributions hesitations in speaking, length with appropriate. speaking. inappropriate in occasional Hesitations in length (too hesitations in longer speech appropriate at A complete short or too longer are rare. all times. absence of long). utterances. Speaker discourse Sound use of never hesitates markers to show Insufficient use Satisfactory discourse unnaturally in progression of of discourse use of markers. speaking. thought. markers, making discourse the train of markers, though Excellent use thought hard to occasionally of discourse follow. missing or markers - used misused. with ease. Interactive Unable to Responds Adequate Is able to Initiates, Communication initiate or occasionally but ability to respond and maintains and maintain the not at a initiate or initiate sustains conversation. sufficient level maintain the interaction and interaction to ensure the conversation. sustain the well. Often hesitates continuity of Responds to conversation or fails to the comments with very minor Responds well respond conversation. appropriately. difficulties. and in a timely entirely which manner to leads to Frequent Occasional Rarely enhance the dissolution of hesitations or hesitation in hesitates when interaction. interaction. extremely slow responding but responding to responses which this does not other speakers. Displays Does not interfere with seriously excellent display quality of impede the Displays good conversational adequate skills conversation. conversation. conversational skills both in in maintaining skills and turn taking and conversation Displays a few Displays awareness of in assisting such as turn skills of adequate how to interact others to taking, interactive conversational effectively, participate response and communication skills such as and/or assists actively. other cues. but enough below turn taking, others to normal to cause responses and participate difficulties for other cues, actively. others in and/or assists discussion. others to participate actively. Notes Grammar Vocabulary Pronunciation Discourse Interactive Management Communication ORAL ASSESSMENT SCALE Name of Student: _______________________________________ Total Points Gained (Out of 50): _____________________ Name of Examiner(s): ______________________________________________________ Date: ______________