Band Fluency and Coherence Lexical Resource Grammatical Range and Accuracy Pronunciation

uses a full range of structures

speaks fluently with only rare repetition or self-correction; uses a full range of pronunciation
uses vocabulary with full flexibility and naturally and appropriately
any hesitation is content related rather than to find words or features with precision and subtlety
precision in all topics produces consistently accurate
9 grammar sustains flexible use of features
uses idiomatic language naturally and structures apart from slips
speaks coherently with fully appropriate cohesive features throughout
accurately characteristic of native speaker
develops topics fully and appropriately is effortless to understand
speech
uses a wide vocabulary resource
uses a wide range of structures uses a wide range of pronunciation
readily and flexibly to convey precise
speaks fluently with only occasional repetition or self- flexibly features
meaning
correction; hesitation is usually content-related and only produces a majority of error-free sustains flexible use of features, with
8 uses less common and idiomatic
rarely to search for language sentences with only very only occasional lapses
vocabulary skilfully, with occasional
develops topics coherently and appropriately occasional inappropriacies or is easy to understand throughout; L1
inaccuracies
basic/non-systematic errors accent has minimal effect on intelligibility
uses paraphrase effectively as required
uses vocabulary resource flexibly to
speaks at length without noticeable effort or loss of
discuss a variety of topics uses a range of complex
coherence
uses some less common and idiomatic structures with some flexibility shows all the positive features of Band 6
may demonstrate language-related hesitation at times, or
7 vocabulary and shows some frequently produces error-free and some, but not all, of the positive
some repetition and/or self-correction
awareness of style and collocation, sentences, though some features of Band 8
uses a range of connectives and discourse markers with with some inappropriate choices grammatical mistakes persist
some flexibility
uses paraphrase effectively
uses a mix of simple and complex uses a range of pronunciation features
is willing to speak at length, though may lose coherence at has a wide enough vocabulary to structures, but with limited with mixed control
times due to occasional repetition, self-correction or discuss topics at length and make flexibility shows some effective use of features
6 hesitation meaning clear in spite of may make frequent mistakes with but this is not sustained
uses a range of connectives and discourse markers but not inappropriacies complex structures though these can generally be understood throughout,
always appropriately generally paraphrases successfully rarely cause comprehension though mispronunciation of individual
problems words or sounds reduces clarity at times
produces basic sentence forms
usually maintains flow of speech but uses repetition, self- manages to talk about familiar and with reasonable accuracy
correction and/or slow speech to keep going unfamiliar topics but uses vocabulary uses a limited range of more shows all the positive features of Band 4
5 may over-use certain connectives and discourse markers with limited flexibility complex structures, but these and some, but not all, of the positive
produces simple speech fluently, but more complex attempts to use paraphrase but with usually contain errors and may features of Band 6
communication causes fluency problems mixed success cause some comprehension
problems
produces basic sentence forms uses a limited range of pronunciation
is able to talk about familiar topics but
cannot respond without noticeable pauses and may speak and some correct simple features
can only convey basic meaning on
slowly, with frequent repetition and self-correction sentences but subordinate attempts to control features but lapses
4 unfamiliar topics and makes frequent
links basic sentences but with repetitious use of simple structures are rare are frequent
errors in word choice
connectives and some breakdowns in coherence errors are frequent and may lead mispronunciations are frequent and
rarely attempts paraphrase
to misunderstanding cause some difficulty for the listener
attempts basic sentence forms
speaks with long pauses uses simple vocabulary to convey but with limited success, or relies
shows some of the features of Band 2
has limited ability to link simple sentences personal information on apparently memorised
3 and some, but not all, of the positive
gives only simple responses and is frequently unable to has insufficient vocabulary for less utterances
features of Band 4
convey basic message familiar topics makes numerous errors except in
memorised expressions
pauses lengthily before most words only produces isolated words or cannot produce basic sentence
2 Speech is often unintelligible
little communication possible memorised utterances forms
no communication possible
1
no rateable language
0 does not attend

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